OT -- Jan 14, 2012 shiny new year version
The new year has begun.
Calenders have been flipped over. Resolutions have already been broken. Some places have all sorts of portable eats. One can watch the old tv adaptation AND the new movie version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, both of which have much to recommend. That football stuff is still going on, I hear. There is a royal visit of some kind in Texas of all places. Some sort of baseball trade went down.
oh, and ...
WHITE CHRISTMAS :SNOW (via TheVinnyVan)
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This winter has been, well, not winter.
So far we’ve only received a couple dustings of snow here in KC. Today it’s supposed to be sunny and 60. Last year it was bitter cold with several record snow storms around the region and this year unless things change it seems like it’s going to be one long season from October to April.
It seems to be very scattershot today.
My dusting is now up to 1/2 inch plus in the Fremont area, but KOMO is saying that they’ve had almost 3 inches downtown.
I'm sad about the lack of snow here on the eastside so far, as my snowshoes gather dust in the corner. Snow in the forecast the next few days (fingers crossed.)
The one upside trade off though is the large number of cold, bluebird days we’ve had. Winter sunshine is so nice.
I'm on a hill...
thus there are a few inches of snow outside where I am right now. I haven’t heard the familiar spinning of tires, but I’m starting to think that if I go out to work today I may not be coming back tonight.
That's my fear for Tuesday. They're talking maybe 3-6 inches puget sound wide.
However, they’re talking Tuesday afternoon into evening..I don’t want to be stuck at work in that scenario.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Jan 15, 2012 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
And the Australian open started today.
Joker is going down! (This is more hope than definitive statement)
Go Federer!
The Basques are having a snow dance in Boise this week.
by yuniform on Jan 16, 2012 10:14 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Does anybody know why Boise has that huge Basque population?
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
Ask Boise's Basque mayor!
Or, go to BoiseBasques.com. Basically, the sheepherders all left Europe and knew a guy in Idaho. The result is awesome sausage and croquettes.
by yuniform on Jan 16, 2012 10:27 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
When my friend moved to Boise, all he could talk about was the Basque population.
Though it did introduce me to cali… xali… kally…. oh fuck. The red wine/coca cola drink. cali-mocho or however they want to spell it.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, their language is especially difficult, but kalimixto (phonetic!) is fine, though there's lots of better Basque food. Bean soup, for example.
by yuniform on Jan 16, 2012 10:42 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Going into Basque country was one of the most jarring experiences of my life because holy shit what is this language?
by Mariner John on Jan 16, 2012 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
Would you recommend a trip there?
I’m in southern Spain now and wondering if it’s worth the trip up north
People tend to migrate to areas that look like where they were before.
Southern Idaho bears more than a passing resemblance to northern Spain- very similar climate, anyway.
That’s why there isn’t a huge Scandinavian population in Alabama
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Lewiston, Maine has a huge Somali population. No joke
by Craptastic-J on Jan 17, 2012 6:36 AM PST up reply actions
I should have said historic immigration trends towards undeveloped areas
The stuff that’s happened in the last 50 years has been a lot more random- now that we don’t have vast amounts of undeveloped land, people just go where somebody will take them
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War-torn refugee-ism is quite a bit different. Somalis in Maine was just very interesting to me when I heard it.
But then you also have things like the Danish colony in Solvang, California established about 100 years ago. Interesting topic.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 17, 2012 7:02 AM PST up reply actions
There are also a lot of Somalis in the Twin Cities, plus a few Somalis and Bosnians in Boise, which is now home to two mosques.
by yuniform on Jan 17, 2012 8:22 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
I think there's a bunch of Hmong in Wisconsin, too.
by yuniform on Jan 17, 2012 10:11 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Gran Torino was about the Hmong population in, I think Detroit
Guess the Hmong like the Great Lakes region
by Craptastic-J on Jan 17, 2012 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
And in at least one case, to areas that SOUND like where they were before!
My great great grandparents moved from the Netherlands to Holland, Michigan.
So far my new years resolution has gone swimmingly!
8 pounds lost since 1/4 (official start of the diet) thanks to a smarter food intake and a minimum of 66 miles ridden a week. How’s everyone else’s resolutions going?
Awesome work. My plan has just been to cut back on alcohol...Still drink, but less.
With so many different sub-set of friends it seems like each want to go out once a week for drinks but once a week, 3 times, adds up!
I fucking hate you Mariners
This is proving the biggest thing for us
We used to go out at least three times a week, and have multiple drinks every time. We will probably still go out a fair amount, but in a nod to realistic thinking we designated Friday or Saturday night as “we don’t care about the diet night” – on one of those nights we can drink whatever we want (but if we do that Friday we won’t do it Saturday, and vice versa). Other nights when we go out, it’s either one beer or two glasses of wine (or one if it’s a place with generous pours).
This will probably evolve over time, but for now it seems to be working pretty well – we’re both dropping pounds and it doesn’t really feel like a massive sacrifice like we thought it would.
I also can't recommend enough 22 daily miles of bike riding as a weight loss aid but that's probably not realistic for most
Does that count if it's the distance between all of the bars you visit on a given day?
If it does, I’m either in or too drunk to care what shape my bar is.
hmmm…. I might want to re-type that when I sober up.
I still need to do that last weight drop after plateau-ing.
I am mostly amazed that after all the food everywhere during the holidays that I didn’t go way back up. The enforced bike ride is a good idea— I have someone at work who also wants to get a walk in, so we’re hoping to noodge each other out the door more often.
Yep
Men lose much faster than women do, and men lose really fast at first. I am not counting on a constant rate of 8 lb every eleven days; that was a nice surprise but if I can stay in the 1-2 lb a week average range I’ll be thrilled.
That's really great actually.
And the team aspect with your wife has got to be a bonus for staying motivated.
Absolutely
But the thing that we both discovered is that we can’t make it a “who can lose more” competition – that doesn’t work for me, especially, because I’m a very non-competitive person. Between us, it’s more of a collaboration, and something we’re doing because we both want to.
What's the general concensus on third base?
I haven’t seen much mention on it, but what’re you guys thinking?
I don’t really remember how Seager looked at the end of the year, UZR didn’t like him, but it’s UZR. I think his bat will be decent enough, but not really sure it’ll make up for the glove.
What other options are out there? Or do we need other options?
I don't mind giving Seager a shot since Catricala isn't ready yet.
I wouldn’t mind signing Betemit either.
by Mariner John on Jan 15, 2012 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
Thankfully I don't have to go to work till Tuesday, so hopefully the worst of it will be going away by then.
@Goose1701
Tuesday looks interesting to say the least. Heavy band of moisture coming in..sounds like cooling tomorrow into this band of rain.
From Komo’s forecast.
We’ll have a drier break with partly starry skies and only a few stray snow showers Sunday night. Lows will plummet into the 20s—even the upper teens in the colder locales near Bremerton and North Bend. Another batch of snow showers will rotate through on Monday, with scattered amounts totaling up to another few inches for some.
Tuesday may feature a much more widespread snow event…up until this point the snow will be scattered. Increasing moisture starts to override our cold air on Tuesday afternoon, and with strong north winds picking up, we may be in for a region-wide snowstorm with heavy amounts (6"+) of snow in parts of the lowlands.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Jan 15, 2012 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
Cliff Mass is dreamy as always.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I just saw that..Oh My Goodness. I'm so down for this. I already have an okay to stay home through Thursday
I fucking hate you Mariners
I made it out to the store earlier.
Let’s do this thing.
by JY on Jan 16, 2012 3:55 PM PST up reply actions
Yup..made it out this afternoon. Bought enough food to keep me happy. Now let's go big!
I fucking hate you Mariners
I'm with you.
Although it’s not snowing AT ALL in West Seattle right now, so it better get to dumping soon so my school can close.
It will be off of the main roads before tomorrow morning.
The only problem is that all the cars that got stuck this afternoon will still be right where they got stuck.
We've completely missed Winter this year in Montana.
It’s the weirdest thing ever. We’ve had more days over fifty than under 20, and hardly any snow below 6000 feet.
I spend the last couple days in Spokane. Overcast and 30. Drove back yesterday to 55 and sunny here in MT. It’s really weird.
Good news is our wildlife could use it after a couple rough winters.
And if you are wondering why Styx would be doing this, Brian Boitano asked them to.
When he fought the evil robot kings, he saved the human race again. You’re going to turn that man down?
I think that I saw a few seconds of that.
If that really is what I was seeing, Dennis DeYoung has aged about as well vocally as he has in image. Though his perm seems to be where all perms on men should be these days, I.E. non-existent.
Ordinary People speak up about the Mariners.
“I refuse to pay for any Mariners games or gear from the mariners. Until they prove they are not pocketing the money and paying for good players. TRADE MORE GOOD PLAYERS FOR BUMS”
“Well, maybe [Eric Wedge & Ken Griffey] should spend more time at home putting a WINNING TEAM on the field instead of prancing around in Japan!! DUHH!!!
“Sell the team to an owner who wants to win in Seattle. Focus on a winning product and not a Japanese tourist attraction. The Mariners are a joke. Seattle deserves better.”
“Clearly the mariners are a right off for the owners… they take their loss in the us to cover their other expenses….It becomes more and more obvious. We love our team but them it is just business…”
“How many guys obtained to jump-start our Safeco offense have to fail miserably before the M’s braintrust realizes that the only path to a pennant is top-notch pitching and defense?”
You know, there's a reason a lot of us don't usually visit comments sections.
by JY on Jan 15, 2012 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
I listened to a few of those the other day.
For the amount of effort they put into getting on the air, you’d think they’d have something to say.
by JY on Jan 15, 2012 9:28 PM PST up reply actions
After reading Shannon's article on Losing the Stank, I learned that the Mariners are just a farm team for the Yankees.
Why do I ever clicked the goddamned comments link?
Shannon's article or the comments in Shannon's article?
Big difference.
Comments after the article.
Shannon is always money. I just feel bad she often has a bunch of comments from mouth breathers.
I visited my parents today, and came across some of these quotes while reading the letters section of their Sunday Seattle Times.
It made me happy I canceled my subscription.
This is just for my zip code but
holy shit Wednesday. NWS doesn’t usually predict that much snow for here. This is after not really getting anything today.
Sistek at KOMO
Sunday evening update
The model runs generated Sunday evening still had a wide range of opinions. One (the “GFS”) has 4-8" of snow falling between roughly 7am and 1 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by a period of heavy rain and strong gusty winds of 30-35 mph with temperatures warming rapidly into the 40s .
Another American model (the “NAM”) had the storm coming in much further south into central Oregon, keeping the Seattle area colder but also less snowy.
The European model keeps the snow around longer, but gradually warms us up. Its solution would make a snowier picture for the Northwest.
It looks like we’ll just have to wait until the storm draws closer and develops more before the models will come to a closer consensus.
Kind of lame Fangraphs has five articles up about the Yankees and/or Pineda.
And none from the Mariners point of view or about Montero.
Just like the BCS rematch title game
this can only be bad for football
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I don't want a rematch of the Giant Snatch game.
by yuniform on Jan 17, 2012 10:12 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Just watch the finale of Sherlock.
Good Television indeed.
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Here:
http://www.tv-links.eu/tv-shows/Sherlock_23592/
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
I became a Mod of an SBN site today.
Note to anyone who ever becomes a mod and can see EVERYTHING bad that anyone has ever said about them, have a thick skin. At least, MOST of those flags were from 2010, early 2011. You can’t have everyone like you, and I’ve come to terms with this. Even I would agree, the I made some pretty bad comments in the beginning (hey, probably still make a few today) but always give people a chance to get better.
Thanks for giving me a chance to get better.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 15, 2012 11:58 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Congrats!
I do hope you will continue to write for us in FG or LL!
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Thanks.
Of course, I will continue to write for FG and comment on LL, and if I feel I have something of value to write in a fanpost, I will do so until I’m told by Matthew or Jeff not to do so. That obviously has not happened. I credit Jeff as an inspiration (not as someone that I “plagiarize” and Matthew as an inspiration to dig deeper than just the bare facts and be more intellectual in any of my posts or comments.
Even if certain people don’t care for you, (I’m not implying that they do specifically) it doesn’t stop me from respecting or enjoying the work that they do. My writing over the last year on other sites has really helped me better myself as a writer and a more knowledgable sports fan, and for the most part things have been a lot better lately.
My advice to anyone who feels “attacked” by a community early on is to look inward, and not outward, for a reason and a solution. “Kenny Knows Sports” and “Humbled Fan” are less mature versions of the person I was before. Have I gotten flagged in the last six months? Sure, but you’d be surprised how much nicer the flags are, haha.
I have actually never flagged anyone, but I don’t see how “he’s a douche” really accomplishes anything. I just think it’s more constructive to say what the issue is rather than just comments or flags that imply “I just hate you and I always will.”
Just some things I’ve learned along the way. Still love the community!
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 12:13 AM PST up reply actions
So you would say Kenny knows blogging?
(please don’t box me)
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Kenny knows that he'll never know everything.
But like anyone else, we all improve over time with practice, experience, and learning from mistakes!
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 12:59 AM PST up reply actions
Damn, hope I can hide all those times I flagged you, before you can notice...
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 1:30 AM PST up reply actions
Too late!
Seriously, I hold NO GRUDGES over anything said. It’s not like it’s any “news” to me, and I don’t hold grudges anyway.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
You are pretty much the model for "how to learn to be a good commenter" in my opinion
You took a serious beating when you first got here, and instead of flaming out, you did what you said above, absorbed the lesson that people were trying to teach you (tough love!!!!) and came back stronger.
by pdb on Jan 16, 2012 9:14 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Thanks!
This feels really weird to say about a website/online community, but LL made me a tougher person. I used to be pretty sensitive and would quickly lash back at people. Now, I realize that you can’t take everything so seriously, or you have to take a deep breath and maybe step away for a little while and then think on it again “Is it still worth it to be angry about this?” or “How can I have a reasonable discussion on this and not a flame war?”
The past two years have been like a huge emotional growth spurt. I mean shit, I’m almost 30. (Wow.)
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
Anything in life can be a learning experience, especially anything you screw up.
Nice work, and congrats.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 16, 2012 10:27 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not even sure if I really did flag you ever.
That’s the story I’ll stick with…
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Nope
You can read all the times people have flagged you always.
by Graham MacAree on Jan 16, 2012 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, man, I'd love to to be able to see the comments from flagging. Must be hilarious.
I apologize if I ever said anything dickish to you in a flagged comment. I feel like I may have a long time ago.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 18, 2012 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
My new years resolution was to be an even better Seattle sports fan and I feel like it's gone quite well thank you very much.
by Robert on Jan 16, 2012 3:55 AM PST via Android app reply actions
AppeaLL to the Masses: Document Formatting Question
If you have a line on a legal document that reads: “NAME/SIGNATURE____________” with only one line following, do you take that to mean you need to provide both a printed name and signature or either a signature or a printed name.
I’m having a rather pointed discussion at work over the inclusion of just one line instead of two. My assumption is that, by providing only one line afterward and having forward slash between name and signature, you are stating OR instead of AND. Modern punctuation seems to be on my side with this one; however the counter argument is that, to represent valid acknowledgement, a signature must always be present so it’s taken to be AND.
I would just sign my name.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 9:03 AM PST up reply actions
This line was included in the middle of the document in which the person merely typed out his name; he signed the last page of the document.
The problem is by not signing that specific line does the clause that comes before the line now become invalid.
I agree that one SHOULD always include both.
In this case by not providing both, does it invalidate the document? I’m arguing no; he’s signed the signature (i.e. last) page of the document, which should bind the document and, since the section in question only has one line and a forward slash between name and signature, it can be interpreted as OR instead of AND.
I am not a lawyer
but I believe that not providing both does not in fact invalidate the document as long as there’s a signature on it somewhere. In your specific example, I would take the forward slash to be an AND, but that’s just me.
Did you know he grew up in Washington State???
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
He sure does a good job of trying to not let you, when the moment arises.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
It's always nice when a cynical asshole continuously mentions his "hometown" teams always stinking.
My car radio went out, and now that I think about it, I’m grateful. (Because I feel obligated to listen to anything sports radio, and the only options are Dan Patrick and Cowherd, and when Patrick goes to commercial, I’d switch over. However, as much as I like Patrick, he talks about sports like 30% of the time.)
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
New Storm Warning for tonight/Tuesday Morning...3-6 inches possible.
And we’re not even talking about the Wednesday storm! OH BOY!!
Scott Sistek is awesome.
I fucking hate you Mariners
On the one hand, first world problems is kind of a stupid meme because of how far overboard people take it
on the other hand, it’s pretty appropriate in many scenarios – problems that suck, but could be much worse.
I have a first world problem right now, as my water heater up and died last night and I have no hot water in the house. Anyone else dealing with somewhat trivial shit that makes for major inconveniences?
Well, since you asked...
A problem with shoddy piping that was regulation when it was installed twenty+ years ago but now would not pass (to say nothing of the lazy contractors who build the house) left us with a water leak on the half bathroom facing the garage. Consequently, that bathroom was torn apart and gutted while dehumidifiers were installed. Further tests revealed that the water had also seeped into the adjacent laundry room and entryway, and those were eventually partially torn up and dehumidified. And the piping will probably be replaced at the same time as the bathroom is re-done, but we first need to clean everything up and no one knows how long that will take. Also the floors would have to be refinished, meaning we’d have to vacate the house at some point.
But as of yesterday, the major inconvenience was that a minor part in one of the two remaining toilets broke and now we only have one functioning toilet. Can’t exactly go out and get the replacement because there be snow and shit. Wheeeeeeee!
(I feel you on the hot water though. Every so often when I lived in NYC, it would get shut down for my block)
Literally? That's rough.
[N]ow we only have one functioning toilet. Can’t … go out … because there be snow and shit.
Are you an owner or a renter?
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
It's a non-issue.
Since I’m back in Seattle for grad school, I’m crashing at my mom’s place and we have USAA. The only issue is that she’s worried about them coming down on us because we’ve had a number of recent claims because the house is aging and the people who built it put in half an ass of effort on the good days. Seriously, when we blew out the air ducts several years back we found about twenty aluminum cans, just rolling around in there.
It's pretty amazing what some carpenters do.
I am the furthest thing from a handyman, but my brother is an excellent carpenter/handyman, and the horror stories has has told me about shoddy work… it’s scary business if you don’t know who you’re working with.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 16, 2012 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
USAA is still the most awesome insurance company ever.
I’d venture if anyone was going to be ok with multiple claims it would be them.
by wazzu93 on Jan 16, 2012 1:25 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I've done the no hot water thing for a brief stretch.
electric hot pot, big pots on the stove, and washing in the kitchen.
Dropped my cell phone and shattered the screen, sent it in for a replacement last week.
It’s definitely a trivial annoyance. There’s nothing I was doing on my cell that I can’t do through a variety of other tools like my computer or landline phone. Problem is that I’ve integrated so much of my work life into it. I check and respond to work issues via e-mail on my phone. Without it, I have to drop what I’m doing and head home, look up a contact, call them, and troubleshoot. If things are particularly bad, I can’t leave the house because someone might need to talk to me.
I can easily get by, but it certainly would be nice to get my cell back.
The "L" key on my keyboard wasn't working for awhile because I spilled water on it.
I was thinking about how much my communication patterns would change if I couldn’t use the letter L. How I couldn’t visit LL anymore.
But it worked this morning, so all is well.
by Mariner John on Jan 16, 2012 12:59 PM PST up reply actions
I've gone without M on my laptop for nearly four years now. I just copy-paste it from the first URL I encounter and then use spellcheck to create capitals as necessary.
by thehemogoblin on Jan 16, 2012 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
You know you can buy a new laptop keyboard for like $20 and it's really easy to install, right?
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electronic Bay
and unless you’re super aggressive you shouldn’t break the clips- I’m not exactly the most graceful or steady handed person in the world and I managed to get it off my HP and put it back on without breaking anything
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Ebay was actually where I bought my keyboard from
Not every keyboard is priced the same. Sooo I guess we’re both right
My house caught fire a month ago and I just got my bathroom back yesterday.
There was a huge hole in my roof and my bathroom was totaled and everything else smelled like smoke and stuff, but none of my items were actually damaged. But still, it was a massive, massive inconvenience that involved me sleeping on the floor at a friend’s apartment for a time and interfered with the first week of school for me.
by thehemogoblin on Jan 16, 2012 1:13 PM PST up reply actions
Looking at video game releases through December, does it look like a down year in gaming as a whole?
Granted there are a few titles I’m really looking forward to, Mass Effect 3 being at the top of the list. Beyond that, Xenoblade Chronicles, Bioshock, and Tomb Raider, I’m not seeing a whole lot that’s catching my attention.
Crusader Kings 2 is probably my most wanted game of this year. I've played the first one for tens if not hundreds of hours.
Beyond that, I’m rather interested in Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning (Apparently it’s made by Curt Schilling?), Paper Mario 3ds, The South Park RPG by Obsidian, Diablo 3, Risen 2, and Xenoblade Chronicles.
I thought the XCOM Shooter was pushed to 2013, while the Firaxis Strategy game was still supposed to be 2012?
Ah that's right, got them mixed up.
I’m oddly looking forward to the shooter. I wonder if they can do to X-Com what Bethesda did with Fallout. Except with fewer bugs.
Halo 4 may come out at the end of the year, that's my most anticipated title.
Besides that, Diablo 3 and the new Counter Strike. I’ve really been trying to cut down on gaming, since I keep buying games that I don’t really get a chance to play because I’m busying playing other things.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
I'm not too worried, several Bungie members did move over to 343i. 343i was built just for Halo, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt for Halo 4.
Bungie also did some questionable things past Halo 2, so, fresh blood might help.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 16, 2012 4:06 PM PST up reply actions
I think I beta tested Halo 4
I might be wrong but it seemed to me like they were going the CoD route by adding changeable classes.
They did that stupid shit in Halo Reach. But I'm sure the option will be there in Halo 4 also.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 17, 2012 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
I'm talking about being able to save a customized class
Not just picking a class. This was a while ago so my memory my be a bit fuzzy.
I'm actually sure now
I did a eight hour session for reach and a four session for Halo 4
Some of the classes were pretty cool but the shield seems over powered. But it was a beta version and on some maps the grass wasn’t even colored in it just said grass
Can't talk, SWTORing it up.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I'm having way, way more fun with TOR than I thought I would.
There are points where it feels kind of grind-y, but I’m having way less of an issue with that than I did with WoW. I think the voice acting goes a long ways to help.
My Reaction:
Jedi: Boring
Evil Jedi: Boring with a huge helping of evil
Smuggler: Weeeeee! Shoot guns, hit on everything that moves!
Playing a smuggler has been a blast.
I read somewhere that Bioware teams had the most fun working with that class.
The non-force classes are a blast.
The game has a hideous UI, klunky combat, and archaic social system. However, the story stuff is an absolute treat, and the dialogue is genuinely amusing.
Go dark side.
You give no fucks for this civilian bullshit.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Troopwe is rad.
I’m Jack Bauer in Space! But my Sith Warrior is cool too :(
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Its January
a lot of release dates haven’t been finalized yet.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I think I'm in 70+ hours and haven't completed any storyline except for the Dark Brotherhood.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 17, 2012 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
All I've done is
Murder some dragons, join the Thieves Guild and wander around shouting at town singers.
I just got it last week and my god it starts slow just like all the other Elder Scrolls games. But it is pretty fun fighting.
I got bored after 10 hours. Gameplay is almost no different Oblivion.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
I for one am really looking forward to The Last Guardian.
Ico was awesome, Shadow of the Colossus was exponentially more awesome, so if the pattern holds, it should be easily the greatest video game of all time.
Here's hoping that game still comes out
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I've only just joined the next-gen crowd (unless you count the Wii) so the entire PS3 catalogue will be new to me this year.
What would you guys say are the must-have titles? I’ve just bought DA:O, FF XIII and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, would any of those make the list? I know the first two split opinion on here, and I seem to recall Deus Ex being well-regarded but may be mistaken in that.
Deus Ex is quite good, and I personally really liked DA:O (although it's a bit dated now).
The Uncharted series is definitely something you should check out if you enjoy platformers and FPSes, If you enjoy imports you may also want to look at Catherine.
For PS3 exclusives?
God of War 3, Uncharted series (2 is the best one), Resistance 2, Metal Gear Solid 4 (not that great but worth experiencing), Folklore (early generation title but sort of unique), Demon’s Souls (if you’re a masochist), 3D Dot Game Heroes (if you want a poor man’s 8 bit Zelda clone), Little Big Planet, Mod Nation Racers (a poor man’s Mario Kart), Wipeout HD, Super Stardust HD, Fat Princess, Valkyria Chronicles (if you’re into Japanese strategy RPGs), Ratchet and Clank (3d platformer), Portal 2 (if you don’t have it on PC), LA Noire (not the best game but worth experiencing on the cheap), Heavy Rain (ditto LA Noire), Ico and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection, Sly Cooper Collection.
And that’s just my list of PS3 exclusives.
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by bluemax on Jan 19, 2012 9:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Can you clarify what you're saying about LA Noire?
A friend is offering to sell me his copy for $15, and I remember being intrigued by it when it came out.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 9:31 AM PST up reply actions
I'd say its probably worth $15
The game is kind of shallow and they tried to pad it out with mechanics that don’t really fit. The interrogation stuff is an interesting idea but it feels like its just not quite there. I think it also doesn’t help that they changed one of the options from “Force” to “Doubt” which leads to some really confusing moments.
I also don’t think the game is really Noir, it feels more like Law and Order 1950s edition.
Its not bad, it just feels like wasted potential, which considering how much it cost and how long it took to make just makes it more frustrating.
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Awesome, thanks.
Uncharted 3 actually came with the console but I’ve only logged a couple of hours on it because I haven’t been able to pull myself away from Skyrim.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 19, 2012 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
The new Batman games are also worth playing in my opinion
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I expect I'll get Arkham City come payday
I considered buying it today but couldn’t really afford it at ÂŁ40. The three I mentioned I got for ÂŁ20.
The nice thing about coming in late is that there are plenty of good titles
that have been discounted heavily so you won’t have to pay full price for quality games.
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Well, I have something to get excited about now.
I felt like RE5 kind of screwed the pooch by fucking u[ the inventory system and retaining only a few of those special elements that made RE4 uniquely charming.
That said, HOLY FUCKING SHIT
by JY on Jan 20, 2012 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
RE4 is one of my favorite games ever, hope RE6 is as badass as the trailer makes it seem.
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I think RE4 is just one of the best games to come out in a very long time.
by JY on Jan 21, 2012 8:56 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I will never, ever understand the hype Resident Evil 4 gets
Its one of the most terribly confused games I’ve ever attempted to play.
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I don't even remember its been so long
the controls were so bad though for the type of game it was pretending to be.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Play it on the Wii, it controls best there.
The reasons I like it a lot:
- Great atmosphere; the graphics were great for its time, and the great atmosphere still holds even though the graphics are obviously dated now.
- Great level design; every area had multiple ways to complete it.
- Diversity in gameplay; the new guns and new enemies that could be gotten along the way changed the gameplay enough that I never felt the gameplay was repetitive.
And overall it was just a polished game, with an interesting (albeit generic) story, and great gameplay to go along with it.
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Does the Wii version do away with the dog shit controls?
I’m guessing no.
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I mean you still can't strafe or move while shooting.
But being able to point and shoot makes things feel a lot smoother than the rate-based scrolling of a controller (I really don’t like console shooters).
I think the controls fit the style of game, however. Not being able to run-and-gun, but having to stop and shoot adds to the intensity of the atmosphere.
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by lailaihei on Jan 23, 2012 9:59 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I don't get the complaint about not being able to run-and-gun.
Then again, I never was a big player of first person shooters. There are games in which you have guns. In some of them you can strafe and run while shooting, and in some you cannot. Having one over the other is not a design flaw.
I like FPS games, but RE4 isn't one, and I'm completely ok with not being able to run-and-gun in the game.
That being said, it would have been nice to be able to strafe…
Overall though, with the weapon choices, upgrades, puzzles, cutscenes, melee combat attacks, enemy diversity, boss battles, it’s a complete game that doesn’t get stale, and has a good ~20-25 hours of gameplay the first time through.
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That was just a soapbox moment for me.
There are certain instances in which the limitations of the games controls can be genuinely off-putting. I understand that the Castlevania games where you could jump on stairs and control movement while you were falling were unrealistic in the strictest sense, but in the ones where they took that aspect out I felt like I was playing a game that was sawed off at the knees.
Going in the opposite direction with it, if you could strafe or run and gun in a game like Silent Hill 2, it would take away a lot of the intensity from the game. Early REs had their tank controls and an aiming system that had little fine tuning, but they wouldn’t be as intense if you could strafe and shoot while moving. The difference in the controls just meant that you had to get used to what the game was asking you to do. It didn’t mean that the game was impossible to get good at.
I understand that it would reduce the atmosphere and fear level.
But having to stand there facing the horde without being able to step backwards while shooting drove me crazy. I didn’t need a full on run and gun, but the ability to inch back slowly to get some distance. And hating myself for mentioning realism and video games together, but this one just made me yell at the TV “WHY CAN’T I BACK THE FUCK UP LIKE TWO STEPS, THIS MAKES NO SENSE”.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
You want me to adapt to the game? WHAT?
I get that you can employ other strategies, that aspect just didn’t work for me. The added atmosphere/fear or whatever they were going for by leaving out something simple turned out to just be frustrating for me. Apparently it worked for lots of people, that’s cool.
I still liked the game, just took it from being excellent to great for me.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 11:05 AM PST up reply actions
SH2 was the first game I thought of as you two were discussing this.
It wouldn’t have been the same at all if it wasn’t clunky and awkward while you were controlling James.
In a lot of ways, it made the game more realistic… James wasn’t some Rambo warrior. He was an average dude looking for his daughter that happened to find some guns to use.
RE4 is pretending to be an action game
it was hyped as an action game. It controls like a drunk tank. If your whole design is predicated on action, reaction times and so forth and then you cripple me with a control scheme and movement system that makes no sense I’m not playing your game.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
The only RE game I ever played was RE4 on Wii, and it was amazing.
I can’t imagine playing it without the Wii remote. It felt like I was one with the game.
I played it through on the GameCube, then again on the Wii when that version was released.
The Wii controls do indeed feel much more natural, even after spending 30+ hours with the GameCube version first.
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ooh, IMDb comments!
“There’s a fantastic blend of European and Australian sensibilities here that makes this the least clichĂ©d film to come out of this country for 20-odd years – and if it doesn’t do well, it’ll be because an increasingly soft and gutless nation is afraid to venture out of their frappuccino and mortgage comfort zone. This is powerful, worthy art.”
Oz film called The proposition
which actually has had some good reviews (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/)
Australian sensibilities?
I must have slept through the class they taught those in.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 16, 2012 11:27 PM PST up reply actions
As mentioned above. Biggest storm in 15 years? OH YEAH? (caveat..maybe not..it's NW weather)
Cliff Mass with an update.
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National Weather Service just said "snow totals possibly exceeding anything since the November storm of 1985."
Yikes.
I'll believe 8-15 when I see 7 inches of snow, first.
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by kentroyals5 on Jan 16, 2012 4:52 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I guess I should be happy we aren't getting snow at the levels of last year or what you're about to get in the NW.
It’s just hard to grasp being able to run this afternoon in shorts and a tank top because it was 67 degrees and sunny. If memory serves 6 inches of snow pretty much shuts down the Puget Sound area so I can only imagine what 15 inches would do.
My dog is going to be furious when we take her out to go potty.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Just finished watching Dave Cameron make his MLB tv debut
after the show, the Hot Stove show came on. Apparently the Yankees got an untouchable pitcher in a trade. Too bad the Mariners never make trades that get on the tv.
That's exactly the kind of attitude I enjoy in professional athletes.
Thanks for sharing.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 17, 2012 2:46 AM PST up reply actions
Scott Sistek KOMO:
Silverdale’s Dr. Dale Ireland is ready with the Ichiro bobblehead to measure snow. Live cam/time lapses: http://is.gd/sW2YRj
And Monday night into Tuesday morning is widespread rain for pretty much everyone not in the foothills or convergence zone.
These weather forecasters better hope for some cold air. Cause it’s already mid 30’s and raining.
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Scott Sistek about 2 hrs ago:
“Onshore flow from passing disturbance has some areas in mid 30s (and rain in the lower elevations) but it’ll cool
back down once north wind arrives later today. Don’t let it fool you into a lull for tomorrow — totally different setup.”
But, the scaling back begins
Cliff Mass, here.
I understand the forecasts change, but Cliff was one of the guys saying 6-14inches…now he’s back to, "well maybe the puget sound might get 2-4…WTF? His original forecast should show that 2-4 as part of what happens if the forecast changes. But no…he was huffing and puffing about a huge snowmageddon.
Now he’s acting like the common folk overreacted to his forecast and because he’s tweaking it, it’s our fault for getting hyped up and not realizing his forecast was off.
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He's not really saying that at all.
He’s pretty consistent in pointing out that forecasting the weather here is absurdly difficult, and that his forecasts should all be taken with that disclaimer in mind.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:12 AM PST up reply actions
Yep
No Slushmageddon, just Snowmageddon. Near all modeling systems are taking the low south of us—thus the uncertainty is considerably less than a day or two ago. (But to be fair, there is a chance that the solutions we have are wrong!)
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:14 AM PST up reply actions
Forecasters sure get a lot of deserved shit.
I mean, if you look at Cliff’s post from last night compared to this morning..it’s night and day. He doesn’t discuss the likelihood of a 2-5 event. That’s not even a big storm. But his post last night was literaly screaming about the likelihood of a huge event (not to mention he has now put in large bold ‘buts’ in that post. It wasn’t that way last night.
Now this morning, it’s like he’s screaming at the Seattle Times for posting what he put last night. Blah blah blah..the Seattle Times is hyping this event.
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It isn't deserved at all.
Meteorology is really fucking hard and people need to be better at understanding that things can change really quickly.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:15 AM PST up reply actions
I've been following Cliff for a while now. No where did I say it's easy. I realize it's hard.
But he said 6-14 last night…Seattle Times ran a similar headline about that amount and Cliff is like ’Pshhh..try like 2-5 inches"
No where in the past few days has he said that. His range has been 6+ for just Seattle.
I’m getting on Cliff for basically slamming Seattle Times headline, when that is EXACTLY what he was pushing last night. Now that he has his special models this morning that indicate a small event, he’s putting the hype on them. His blog had the hype before the Times!
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From his post last night:
Since the forecast is so critically dependent on the exact position of the low, we need to watch that today. There is still a chance this could end up as a wet event….snow turning to rain, particularly over the southwestern portion of WA.
Cutting to the chase, Seattle may well get 6+ inches of snow during the next two days.
There has been some hype about this event…it is NOT going to be as bad as December 1996.
Keep in mind EVERYTHNG is dependent on the location of the low pressure…if it moves farther north than our models suggest we could see much more rain in the mix.
No mention of 14" anywhere in the post, and clear caveats that A) It looks like it could be bad, but it could also change pretty quickly and B) He sees no reason to believe this is going to be an historically bad storm. There’s a huge difference between what he posted last night and the Times story this morning.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:25 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
As I said below...
in this instance, instead of saying may well get 6 inches plus…tell us what happens if this is a wet event, as he caveated above. More information is always better in this scenario. However, he only gives what will happen in one scenario.
I guess I’m just looking for a forecast based on what-ifs to have a better idea on what to expect if/when the forecast 24 hours out is wrong.
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I think it's fair to want more information and different scenarios, but I also think it's important to consider the source.
Cliff Mass’ blog isn’t a forecast site; it’s a blog about meteorology. His posts are usually geared towards “hey, this would be/is interesting.” A wetter event is basically rain in Seattle in January, which isn’t really interesting at all.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:34 AM PST up reply actions
To follow up.
I think meteorologists would be better off being more inclusive about their forecasts. (i.e. in this scenario)
For instance, in this scenario where a potential big storm is coming. State the other forecasts that are likely to happen. If 24 hours before the storm rolls in and you say 6-14 inches, you know what that indicates to the common folk? You’ll have at LEAST 6 inches. 12 hours later, only a small locaton south of Olympia is supposed to get more than 5? Be more inclusive of the details. . If this storm tracks 100 miles north or south, which is very possible, indicate what that would mean. The hype comes from the random listener of news hearing 6-14 inches and then 12 hours later finding out that wasn’t even close.
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That's the random listener of news' fault for being dumb.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:28 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
How hard is it to put in potential snow totals should the storm track 100 miles north or south?
That’s far more informative and helpful than saying, worst case scenario is x-y inches.
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I don't know if it is more informative/helpful.
Presenting the most likely scenario is almost always best in these cases.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:35 AM PST up reply actions
I think it is. If the storm goes 100 miles north or south are we talking MORE snow or LESS?
Will my office be closed if it tracks differently? 2-5" is a hell of a ways from 6-12" and meaningful enough to mention, IMO, as a possibility.
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Then you're just getting into speculation though, because the models don't work that way.
I mean, how useful is this forecast? “Well, the odds are good we’ll get 6”+ in Seattle, but we may get 2" and hell, we might get squat." If a meteorologist says something like that they would lose their job.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:42 AM PST up reply actions
That's what happens before any snow event around here.
This storm could bring 10 inches of snow to your house, or 3, or rain, actually.
At least tell me the likelihood of said scenarios. Forecasting, for the common folk, is about being able to plan a day around the weather. Heck, my office was closed today because it was supposed to snow overnight around the region (passing showers). Instead it rained..and the roads are clear of any snow/slush/ice. Wish I knew that it was going to warm up. No one mentioned that last night
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It wasn't supposed to happen, though.
I mean, what you’re asking for isn’t a wider range of information; you’re asking for near perfect accuracy of information. That ain’t gonna happen.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:48 AM PST up reply actions
Nope..not near perfect accurate information. You're wrong.
I’m asking, BECAUSE, it’s a hard region to forecast, give me more information on other scenarios.
If 20% of your models are saying 2-5 inches, that’s helpful information.
At least can we agree that Jim Forman is a dolt?
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That's not what the models were saying though.
They were remarkably consistent.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Northwest weather is fluid and thus constantly changing
When Mass said prepare for a lot of snow, it’s because that was what the models were saying. Now he’s saying just a couple inches, which is what the updated models indicate. Unlike places like the southwest, where weather is pretty constant, up here it can change pretty much from minute to minute.
As Aaron says, the hysteria is the fault of the listener of news for not understanding that weather changes quickly around here, and not of the forecaster who is doing the best s/he can with the information available at the moment.
That's why I don't put stock into 3-5 day forecasts
Seriously..I think we can stop the ’it’s difficult in the northwest’ argument. I get it. I’ve acknowledged it.
I’m looking for more short-term information. 24 hours prior to the event, the models pointed to a HUGE storm. 12 hours later, I wouldn’t even consider it a storm. 2-5 inches is nothing. Did they have this information at 24 hours ago? How certain were they of the HUGE storm at the time? If they weren’t certain, then include other scenarios.
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For what it's worth, I agree with you
We can blame listeners, yes, but it’s not like weathermen (Sistek and Cliff Mass, whom I both really like) were offering much caveat in this situation. All forecasters were hyping it a LOT and talk of blowing away records and most-snowfall-since-1985 gets people excited.
If that means everyone is dumb, so be it. I would’ve liked for some more emphasis on the “this MIGHT not happen” scenarios, instead of sounding so sure about it.
Again, for what it's worth, the National Weather Service just upgraded the alert
To a Winter Storm Warning for all of Western WA beginning at midnight tonight…
I only follow Mass
and if you, or anyone in this thread, think he wasn’t offering much caveat about the storm(s), then I think the fault lies totally with you. For example here, I thought he laid out exactly where his thoughts were coming from and the likely implications of the model runs while the whole time cautioning that they were predictions, not certainties and that it was extremely hard to forecast (several times mentioned and even highlighted) and that shifts in where the storm moved would produce big changes.
I read that. His subsequent article later that night was a lot more dire
Which he then edited this morning to add/bold/highlight additional caveats.
Maybe it’s our fault, yeah, but you can’t wave a steak in front of a starving dog without expecting them to get excited, even if you say “well there’s a POSSIBILITY you might not eat this.”
All us Seattlites are just bitter we might get dog food instead of steak
And the hilarious part is the storm isn’t even here yet and we’re all just bitching away, before we even know what happens.
I should change my name to BitchItHere instead.
I'm the same way, actually.
I’m really hoping we get a ton of snow, because a) I love huge weather events; b) I’m responsible for tire chain sales for Amazon, and so far this year the weather really hasn’t cooperated.
At least skiiers should be happy – no matter what, the Cascades apparently are going to get slammed.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 17, 2012 12:43 PM PST up reply actions
I'm still not really seeing the issue.
Weather forecasts are by their nature predictive, and like any other forecast can only represent what we, given the data we have, think is most likely to happen. Of course we would expect those forecasts to get refined as the actual event being forecast approaches and the variables settle down.
It seems as though Mass is being punished here for reporting what he thought would happen, based on his models. Expecting a weatherman (weatherperson?) to not report on what the forecast is predicting seems unrealistic. I would think that if anything we’d want the forecast to be a little more dire than underplay the danger, because there’s real value in people being prepared for a possibly big and dangerous storm.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 17, 2012 12:40 PM PST up reply actions
My larger issue wasn't with the forecast last night from Cliff Mass.
It was him getting on the Seattle Times for their headline/article today, which was a reflection of the model he reported on last night (6-12 inches..possible 14).
He got new models, shifted his numbers way down and lambasted the ‘media’ for hyping it. Mind you, they were reporting the same data he had the night before. He’s now removed his critique of the Seattle Times headline.
You’re right that with our geographic area, generally ‘underplaying’ the danger is warranted. Warn the worse case scenarios, but how often do they actually occur around here?
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by kentroyals5 on Jan 17, 2012 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
All this criticism comes with a caveat on my own end.
I enjoy Cliff’s work..and will continue to do read his blog. It’s good stuff.
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by kentroyals5 on Jan 17, 2012 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
His original comment on ST headline:
When I see the Seattle Times hawking a big headline of "Megastorm Looms for the Area" with talk about up to 14 inches and possibly exceeding the the all time record snowfall, I know I have to worry. ST headlines are often over the top…
That’s “lambasting” the Times?. I find that verb wildly out of proportion to his level of criticism.
But the 14 inches wasn't Seattle propoper..some models were indicating areas getting 14 inches.
And I don’t actually recall the original title of the ST article. It seems like it’s changed over the day. The ST article actually reported the same potential storm that Cliff was reporting last night. Plain and simple. Cliff got updated numbers and decided to go after a newspaper headline (when we all know newspapers/news are trying to get viewers…so of course they may be idiotic in their headlines. Doesn’t change that they were reporting the same potential for snow that Cliff did last night. Except Cliff updated his with larger print and bold letters to have caveats.)
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A) My assumption is that he's referring to the physical rag, not the website
B) I still don’t see where he’s “lambasting” them. He implies it’s over the top. That’s all.
C)
we all know newspapers/news are trying to get viewersDoesn’t this contradict your earlier argument about the forecasts causing panic by focusing too much on worst-case scenarios? If we all know they do that, how can it have an effect and not be the reader’s fault.
I wouldn't put Cliff Mass in the same boat as Komo or the Seattle Times.
I believe Cliff tries to put out the most accurate forecast he can. I don’t think he’s looking to Jim Forman things.
Secondly, the physical rag had to be printed last night/early morning before the udpates Cliff had. He was able to ‘poo-poo’ the headline/article because he had new data. But the ST reported on the same data Cliff was reporting on.
Cliff went from Major Snow Event..SNOMAGEDDON, etc to 2-5 inches. His forecast changed with numbers..the rag was unable to due to time constraints.
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Totally mixed reviews happening now.
As pointed out below, Cliff Mass said 6-14 yesterday, now 2 to 5.
Komo4 is still pointing to the 6+ range for the greater Seattle area.
My poor heart is being treated like a punching bag.
Not sure if KOMO has updated yet.
Sistek is tweeting and saying that the totals are getting dialed back, but he hasn’t said by how much.
He's saying 4-6 in Seattle, increasing north to south.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 17, 2012 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
Seems to roughly match what Cliff just posted.
Probably an inch or two as far north as Everett, but not much if anything further north of there.
It was updated at 9:23, about 20 minutes prior to my post.
But yeah, it’s changing quickly. Even though the NWS just upgraded to a winter storm warning for tonight.
Blarg
ScottSKOMO Scott Sistek
NWS is still going with 5-10" for Seattle proper with higher amounts south, but also introducing potential Frez. rain Oly South. #wasnow
6 minutes ago
I opted to skip class today because I don’t even get out until 5:30 pm, but now I’m starting to feel like a jackass.
by JY on Jan 17, 2012 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
Yup..no work today..and with tomorrow's snow (2-12 inches, depending on who ya ask), the office is closed tomorrow.
Sure wish I had gone in today.
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by kentroyals5 on Jan 17, 2012 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
Radar seems to show a blue blob heading up from Oregon as the temp drops around here.
RUN FOR THE HILLS!
THEN WRECK YOUR CAR AND STRAND YOURSELF TRYING TO GET OFF SAID HILL!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Tomorrow, we'll see pdb post pictures of snow-covered hospitals....
by JY on Jan 17, 2012 10:26 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Assuming Robert drives as well as the average Northwesterner in the snow they have nothing to worry about
Most of the major hospitals in town are at the top of a really steep hill.
It's not even supposed to get below freezing here I don't think
Original forecast was for 2-4 inches of snow, as of this morning even that’s off the table.
It was snowing pretty hard on the West side this morning. Had about an inch of snow I had to walk through to get to the MAX.
Of course, get through the MAX tunnel and downtown Portland looks like most any other day.
Everybody in my office is trading how-much-at-your-house stories
My NoPo house got exactly no inches of snow, yesterday or today.
And it looks like Whatcom County is getting screwed. Again.
Fine, I’ll live with my 5-6 inches we have right now.
Jeff is cheating on Matthew
In case you don’t follow Jeff on twitter here is a link to a podcast with Jeff and Fangraphs
Can't post a fanshot on mobiLLe, so I'll just mention it here:
Mariners to induct Randy Johnson, Dan Wilson into Mariners HOF
by Eyebrows on Jan 17, 2012 11:13 AM PST via mobile reply actions
So apparently now that Michael Pineda is gone, Dave is contractually obligated to hate the guy he was traded for
I wonder how he feels about Chaz Roe
heh heh.
Scott Sistek: About to go on Schram on KOMO-AM at 1:05. I’m sure he’ll be asking about supposed 35 feet of snow predictions he’s “heard” :P
Tonight
Hot Stove League Show, 7-9 p.m. on 710 ESPN: Dan Wilson, George Sherrill, Larry Stone, Jeff Sullivan, Forrest Snow
Dogs wearing bandanas are the best.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Jan 17, 2012 3:05 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Is it just me or are GIFs getting better in quality? Like HD GIFs or something?
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 17, 2012 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
I'm sorry Scruffy..
I can’t watch this without mentally replacing the dog’s face with Jack Wilson’s….
I love how she shows up, sniffs the camera and runs off
It makes me wonder how my dog would handle snow now.
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I can't see your stuff anymore. :(
I get that little thumbnail thingy where the .gif is and when I right click on it to open in a new tab I get an unable to open network message. Why does my computer hate you? Must.See.Rally.Puppy.
No - Above the Barkley/Railroad trail.
It connects to this huge loop inside the neighborhood up on the hill there.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 18, 2012 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Justified season 3 premiere was just on.
This is my favorite show on TV at the moment. What other shows are looking forward to coming back from the mid season break or having it’s season premiere this spring?
by seattle_since_81 on Jan 17, 2012 8:02 PM PST reply actions
Community
I can’t decide whether to put a smiling emoticon or a frowning emoticon after that.
by JY on Jan 17, 2012 8:07 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Justified is so good
I think it is one of the few shows on TV I actually care about right now
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Bah! Can't wait to watch it. Almost done with season 2.
Love me some Justified.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 18, 2012 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
Jack Cust just got a major league deal from a National League team.
Astros!
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Second year is an option which makes it less heinous.
by Mariner John on Jan 17, 2012 8:52 PM PST up reply actions
I don't begrudge Cust a job but still, man!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Holy what?
Did they not see him last year?
I mean it is the Astros but damn.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 18, 2012 12:17 AM PST up reply actions
Weather or whether.
sounds like the most recent model runs are showing less and less in the central Puget Sound region. Cliff has it at “8-15 inches over portions of SW Washington. 7-8 inches near Olympia, 2-4 inches over Seattle, 2 inches over Everett. Very little over Bellingham.”
KOMO has “Later forecast models issued Tuesday night do take away some of the moisture and continue to lessen the threat of a major snow to the greater Seattle area but do still bring a widespread snowfall. To break this down, points from Olympia south to Portland and out to Pacific County could see 6-10” of snow. For Tacoma area over towards central Kitsap, we’re looking at 4-6 inches. For greater Seattle it’s now about 2-4" with the higher amounts toward the foothills. As you go north, the snow totals now get less. Everett, for example, is looking like 1-3" now — although that’s on top of what you got in the convergence zone Tuesday. By the time we get north toward Bellingham, they may just be windy and cold with blowing light snow in gusts to 55 mph and low wind chills near zero amid temperatures in the teens as the Fraser Wind ramps up"
What a bunch of malarkey, tomorrow should have been a snow day
The only way this is going to work now is if a significant number of people on the job live to the south or east and can’t make it in. Which is like backing your way into the playoffs by hoping all your competition loses.
It is a snow day, for a lot of people.
I’m looking up the reports online and it looks like everything in my hood is once again shut down. Bellevue is out. Seattle is out. Most of the colleges and universities look like they’re still in session though.
And Odegaard went wild.
STOP CHEERING CANCELLATION OF CLASSES!
I JUST WANT A ONE DAY BREAK FROM MAKING COOKIES ALL DAY
AND YES! MY SCHOOL IS CLOOOOOSED! Take that, cookies.
This sucks.
by harkening on Jan 17, 2012 10:21 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It sucks on the eastside as well.
We’ve been promised up to a foot since Sunday, tonight/tomorrow for sure. All we’ve had is a 1/2 inch dusting and frigging wind storms. Seems to keep moving south and hitting Pullman. Bastards. This winter sucks so far.
Started in the Tri-city area last night and so far has been going non-stop with close to 6 in. on the ground currently.
by the other side on Jan 18, 2012 9:41 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, started about midnight in Puyallup and we've got at least four inches, probably more and it doesn't look to stop any time soon.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
We've only got an inch or so but it's the small steady flakes and looks like it's socked in for the day.
Hard to believe the first significant snowfall of the season comes on Jan. 18th. I hope we get a lot more over the next couple months or this summer is going to suck.
Yeah it actually intensified over the past hour and from the radar it looks like we still have a solid couple hours of snow to go.
My college is the biggest tightwad assholes ever and refuse to cancel morning classes ever.
by the other side on Jan 18, 2012 9:53 AM PST up reply actions
I'm still having to go into work so I'm with you there :(
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Boise got snow at 7 a.m. Horrible commutes for everyone!
by yuniform on Jan 18, 2012 10:05 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Scott Sistek:
“It’ll almost be too bad if we don’t get a massive snow because I haven’t seen a more perfect set up in a long time. Arctic air now marching south – 10 in Bellingham, mid 20s up north and Everett is just now about to drop into 20s. And with massive storm coming in on top of it? CLASSIC set up. Just need the moisture which theoretically should have been the easiest ingredient to secure.”
Hey, so weather.
Today is was 85, sunny and beautiful.
:)
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 18, 2012 12:19 AM PST reply actions
I know.
But I’m enjoying what will probably be my last summer back home. Once I finish my degree this year I’ll probably be back off to the mainland where it gets closer to uncomfortably hot on a much more regular basis.
That and I’ll probably never have this much free time again for so long until I’m retired. Pitchers and catchers report before I go back to classes again.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 18, 2012 12:28 AM PST up reply actions
Thank God our water heater broke this weekend
I would hate for it to have broken during the winter here
by seattlebruin on Jan 18, 2012 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
Enjoy your drop bears you son of a bitch!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Jan 18, 2012 9:34 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Last night's TBS 0200 movie: Broken Arrow; tonight: Larry the Cable Guy.
Dear God I wish I had control of the remote at work.
So its SOPA day.
If anyone comes across any interesting news about the internet blackout, please share. (I believe we’ve established we can tiptoe around SOPA here)
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NPR said they're partnering with other outfits (WaPo, Guardian) to be a tweet reference desk. Do any libraries regularly do that?
by yuniform on Jan 18, 2012 8:05 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Yup.
The UW reference librarians are generally online weekdays 9am – 5pm. They also are part of 24/7, where you can link up with a librarian from another academic library or from a national 24/7 cooperative reference service. SPL is also part of that service.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 18, 2012 8:09 AM PST up reply actions
Also Wikipedia is the perfect blackout
Gets the message out but still allows you access to the page if you contain a single ounce of intelligence which would automatically qualify you as somebody who is anti-SOPA
I love their local action page that pops up when you put in your zip code. Easy access info.
I got a form letter response one from office already. I don’t think we’re on the same side.
Is it kosher to link to call-to-action pages in the fanshot Matthew frontpaged?
Like click-to-call your representative etc.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Happy Snow Day, all.
Kind of a bummer at the snow totals, but at least it fell. I’d imagine The Weather Channel won’t be sending people to cover “PNW snow storms” in the future.
I fucking hate you Mariners
And unlike many had forecasted, it appears the switch over to rain is happening very early from south to north. This could get ugly.
I fucking hate you Mariners
I'm still getting snow down here in Puyallup and it's still below freezing.
Where’s it switching to rain?
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Still snowing like a mofo on Alki.
Freezing fog, too.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 18, 2012 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
It's raining in Maple Valley.
Although I was just scolded by my wife for saying as much.
An hour ago it was sleeting in Olympia. Definitely switching over early. Boo
I fucking hate you Mariners
OK, someone clarify for me
is it a Snowpocalypse? Or the perfect blend of crap where everyone who wants Snowpocalypse doesn’t get it yet there’s still enough snow for everyone’s day to day lives to get disrupted?
It's not Snowpocalypse, but my ass ain't leaving the couch.
Pretty much perfect for me.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 18, 2012 9:44 AM PST up reply actions
Depends where the person lives.
And it’s not over yet.
Yeah...Convergence Zone got hammered yesterday (not so much today) and Olympia southward got hammered.
Rest of the Sound area is tr-5. More as you get towards the foothills, obviously.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Yesterday we received our first appreciable snowfall since mid-October.
It was about an inch. Of course that didn’t stop Masshole drivers from acting like it was an all-out blizzard. You’d assume for people that have driven in snow all their lives, blah blah blah.
sNOwpocalypse indeed.
I haven't decided if the snow makes me reminisce about Seattle
or if I’m just glad that the beach is a legitimate consideration later
by seattlebruin on Jan 18, 2012 9:55 AM PST up reply actions
I feel the same way
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
What's your snow total?
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Jan 18, 2012 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
5.5 inches off the deck.
It looks like it could be more in other spots but I’m not going out that far. That would require that I put on boots.
Youngsters these days!
When I was a kid we walked to school barefoot in 3 feet of snow, year round, uphill both ways.
Damned punks can’t handle a little cold.
Everett area got a bunch of snow yesterday.
Convergence zone set up shop around 6AM and didn’t let up until about 5PM.
8" at my folks and no signs of stopping
by Graham MacAree on Jan 18, 2012 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
I have a foot of snow and my flight out of Bham to Oahu is still a go.
I think its the best situation I could ask for.
by Scruffy Lefty on Jan 18, 2012 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
Fuuuuuuck that sounds awesome.
Live it up for the rest of us schmucks!
by sanford_and_son on Jan 18, 2012 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
Work for me but there was a snowball fight at the end of a 1.5 mile tunnel
Don’t imagine that opportunity will ever come around again
Gah, still no Darvish deal?
I’m beginning to dislike the Rangers. I feel like if they sign Darvish they probably won’t sign Fielder, but who knows-maybe they have money for both. And if they don’t sign Darvish, I would think they’d be almost a lock for Fielder. The possiblity of several seasons of facing Pujols and Fielder 18 times makes me ill.
Boy, will the Astros be peeved.
by yuniform on Jan 18, 2012 10:29 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
My world used to be a pretty happy place to be.
Please don’t give me any more reasons to like the Rangers. I don’t think my tender psyche could handle it.
At least the hate for the Angels will always remain pure.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Has anyone had to deal with the IRS before?
are they at all reasonable? Without going too much into detail, they essentially just sent me a letter that says I owe them a ton of money for not paying my taxes (much of which is withheld from my salary by my company)
The only thing I've had to do was take my dad in (the last year he did his own taxes) because he'd gotten messed up on some small capital gain number and needed to file an extension.
We went into the office, and they were very helpful about the extension and then when we went back in 6 months with getting the paperwork right. That was a small thing, of course.
I had something similar happen with state income taxes.
I was able to call and set up a payment plan because I didn’t have the cash to pay it all off at once. I made sure to explain that I wasn’t trying to avoid paying taxes, it was a simple mistake, and that I wanted to pay off my debt. It didn’t take very long to set up the plan – maybe a 1/2 hour on the phone with a rep. I paid the monthly bill on time until it was paid off and there were no other issues.
Do you in fact owe the money?
If so, and I hate to be all corporate about it, be proactive. Call them ASAP – they’re really pretty cool about setting up payment plans, and they’ll totally work within your budget to do it as long as you make them a substantive offer (not $20 a paycheck). I owed some back taxes a couple years ago and they were actually pretty nice about it.
It can be a nightmare getting to them on the phone but once you do they’re pretty flexible.
I do not owe the money
they are claiming that I withheld no money from my paycheck, which my W2 clearly shows isn’t true (I have no idea right now…)
by seattlebruin on Jan 18, 2012 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
I'd still call them and if I got someone on the line, say that and ask what kind of proof they need.
I’d also go to your HR dept or Legal if you have one and enlist their help
SSS but my father encountered a similar problem a few years ago.
The IRS sent him a letter saying that he had not paid taxes for two years in the mid-1980s; strange considering that he received the letter nearly 20 years, and an audit, after the alleged transgression. My father, being a normal human being, shredded his old tax information after a decade or so and had no hard copies; the CPA he used had long retired and could provide no help. Basically it turned into a nasty he-said/they-said argument that had my father seeking legal counsel. Their response was 1. nobody ever wins against the IRS and 2. for the love of god, do not EVER discard tax information, no matter how old.
The moral of the story is as long as you have proper paperwork documenting the situation, you should be OK. If not, you’re most likely screwed.
Good advice since I thought you only had to keep tax records for the past 5-10 years
and anything prior to that was outside limitations or something.
That's what my father assumed as well. But the IRS can be very, very sneaky.
Three or six years is the typical statute of limitations on when the IRS has to file charges of noncompliance; there is no limitation on how long it takes them to actually notify the party or demand collection.
So, uh, when are we going to hear anything official about the Pineda trade?
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MLB.com won't let you make a Mariners jersey with Montero as the name
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
True
I was more curious to see if he had a number. Apparently he never got his “true” number when he was a Yankee.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
by bluemax on Jan 18, 2012 4:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Of course some Yankee fans think he wouldn't have been given #51
since it is a number worth retiring for them, Paul O Neill and all that.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I don't know how many of you saw this.
This was Grant Brisbee’s response to Jeff writing various Baseball Nation articles about the Giants.
by JY on Jan 18, 2012 4:37 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
During this past season a friend was always on me about my attitude surrounding the Mariners.
He’d always tell me that they couldn’t be that bad and that I needed to stay positive. One day I told him to look at the 2010 and 2011 team pages on BR. He had almost the same reaction but I got the bonus of seeing the facial features to go along with it. He hasn’t given me shit since.
Yeah pretty much
the only people who can out do us are Royals and Astros fans.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
The Challenge huh?
This is what your fandom is like?

How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I envision Mary Kate playing the Mariners with Ashley as the Royals.
Special guest appearance by Dave Coulier as the Astros.
How did you even know that this was a thing?
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by Corco on Jan 18, 2012 6:36 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I did a google image search for "the challenge" and that was the first thing that came up.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Grant and Jeff are what I would imagine is the perfect baseball podcast
by seattlebruin on Jan 18, 2012 5:37 PM PST up reply actions
You can always just make it Grant Jeff and Matthew
"You are the molders of their dreams." - Clark Mollenhoff
Matthew and Jeff have a way better dynamic.
by Kirk on Jan 18, 2012 9:20 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
They don't have the curse of success to dull their edge.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
by JAH on Jan 18, 2012 9:48 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I've found myself going to Wikipedia 6 times today, forgetting that I'd need to press the stop button to read anything
I never realized how much I used it until today
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I drove my car to work through torrential rains
We didn’t get a snowpocalypse. We got about an inch of snow and then it turned into 45 degree temps and heavy rain which won’t stop until Saturday. Ugh.
You have the rain, we have the fringe on that rain, and ...
“Most of the air above us is warm enough to support rain, but the bottom of the atmosphere — where we live — is still below freezing. This has led to widespread freezing rain, and this rain is creating a thick coat of ice on everything it touches, including road surfaces.Temperatures, thankfully, will likely remain above freezing overnight tonight, and a much wetter system arrives on Friday…”
Sistek this am:
“I am among the thousands and thousands stranded around Sea-Tac today so updates are going to be sporadic. I must say this is by far far and away the greatest ice storm I’ve ever seen in Seattle and I’ve been here since 1990. This is way more widespread than 1996.”
I found myself cursing myself for breaking my sunglasses again this morning.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It was 13 when I woke up this morning, but no clouds today means that I also lament losing my sunglasses.
Maybe he means that! (heh)
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Oddly enough
my Nissan, which I didn’t clear the snow off of, is accessible. The locks aren’t seized, the doors will open and stuff. If it weren’t for the fact that it’s a rear wheel drive I probably could have made it to work this morning.
Its like right on the edge of being too cold for just a hoodie
but not cold enough for an actual jacket
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It's amazing how pussified living in Los Angeles has made me to cold weather.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
It was 48 when I walked my dog last night
and I put on a scarf. In my defense I’m sick.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
When I let my dog out this morning
the snow that she was romping through yesterday had changed. There is now a layer of ice on top of it that has her totally flummoxed. Watching a ~70 pound dog try to run around on ice covered snow is hilarious.
Watching mine try it is sad.
She’s 50 pounds, and the ice covered snow terrified her. She tried to walk on it, slipped, one paw punched through the ice (not all of them), and she just stood there trembling, looking at me with one foot under the ice. Both dogs have now completely rejected the idea of the outdoors.
I wonder how my parents dog is handling the snow
He’s a 40 some odd pound cattle dog.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I love cattle dogs.
Mine were fine with the snow while it was fluffy. Now that it’s hardened and became a disgusting mixture of dirty snow & thick ice, not so much. Now they’re huddled up waiting for it to be over.

by royalcurve on Jan 19, 2012 11:24 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Aww they look so cozy
I wonder how my dog would react to snow. He’s been in it once as a tiny puppy, but now that he’s older I think he might feel differently about it.
My previous cattle dog like to roll in the crunchy frost covered grass but he wasn’t a super big fan of snow.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I just had a report about the ACD of my acquaintance:
“now that the snow has iced over she doesn’t like walking in it, so she wont’ chase the frisbee and she looked so miserable on our last walk that I dont’ want to try that again – she keeps bringing me her toys one by one. "
Nikki isn't scared at all.
Every time I let her out she tries again and, still, the snow remains the same. She tries to run and falls on her tukus. She gets stable again and just stands there for a second then gingerly wends her way back to solid ground. All the while managing to look totally bamboozled.
Watching it is both sad and sidesplittingly funny.
My cat is intrigued by the weather but ultimately wants nothing to do with it.
She races to the back door (where she can see the drifts anyway) and she goes out, walks over a foot or two, stands there for a minute and then runs back inside and stands next to the heat register.
by JY on Jan 19, 2012 3:12 PM PST up reply actions
I lived in Chicago for a spring.
I was inoculated to the cold for like two years.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 19, 2012 12:43 PM PST up reply actions
Podcasts!
As short of a time ago as last year, I would have never even thought of listening to any sort of radio talk program.
Now I’m hooked on Radiolab, and going through their backlog at a high rate of speed. I’ve also found that other NPR-style podcasts are not really my speed (such as This American Life, Car Talk, etc). There’s something about the pseudo-philosophical bent and the constant music and noise/interludes catches me.
Anyone have any others that might catch my interest, with a similar or more historical genre?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I'm not sure about historical ones but I loves me some podcasts.
but if you like intelligent talk about sports – and being on LL I know that’s a stretch – check out Slate’s Hang Up And Listen. It covers all sports, it’s pretty interesting.
I haven't listened to a lot-- I like Pop Culture Happy Hour, which is another NPR one, though not philisophical
I know people who like Mike and Tom Eat Snacks
You might like the How Stuff Works family of podcasts.
They’re much more casually put together than Radiolab, which can be either a good or a bad thing depending on what you like. If you like comedy, there are quite a few good ones out there – I have an absurdist sense of humor and love Comedy Bang-Bang and Sklarbro Country (which talks about weird events in sports, but the guests are all comedians).
If you like history, the BBC’s a History of the World in 100 Objects is interesting.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 9:00 AM PST up reply actions
For a public radio style history show, check out Backstory with the History Boys.
I also like Planet Money and Freakonomics Radio, for economic podcasts.
by yuniform on Jan 19, 2012 10:11 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Oh, yay.
ICE is accumulating in many areas of Western Washington and will continue to add up for several more hours. An ICE STORM WARNING is currently in effect for steady freezing rain from Lynnwood/North King Sounty southward through the morning, as temperatures will remain below freezing until this afternoon. Driving conditions will be poor at best.
Significant ice accumulations are bringing down hundreds of branches, trees, and power lines, and this ice will continue to accumulate for the next few hours. This weather situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.
Meanwhile we are supposed to be getting two inches of rain by 9PM tonight down here
I want a goddamn icepocalypse. Riding to work this morning was a really bad idea. I will never be dry again.
I haven't seen it rain this hard in years
This is the hardest I’ve seen it rain since I’ve lived in Portland.
I think I might have broken my pinky toe last night. Is this worth getting checked out? I just sort of figure that there's nothing they could do about it.
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In my limited experience, toes pretty much just have to heal on their own...
Otherwise, keep the swelling down, take some ibuprophen.
of course, I may the wrong person to answer as it took me a week to finally go in and ask about my broken finger…
The worst part is that I joined 24 Hour Fitness yesterday. I was going to start running this morning.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, don't do that.
Biking was good for me though.
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Thanks.
And thanks everyone for the quick responses.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 8:52 AM PST up reply actions
I'll have to start with some exercise like that now. Which is fine I guess.
By the way, if anyone wants to know the good deal (at least I think its great) on joining a gym… go to Costco and get the 24 Hour Fitness special. Its $320 and you’ve got a two-year membership. So, $13 a month. You just have to be sure you’re the kind of person to commit, but I love that it’s one quick, easy payment.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 8:53 AM PST up reply actions
I ended up going the opposite route, and dropped my extremely expensive gym this year for a trainer twice a week and non-gym workout plan.
Comes out to about the same cost and I’ve been much more motivated and it’s been much more effective.
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Oh wow, that does sound smart too.
Already locked in here, and $13 a month is pretty cheap, but having a trainer is good. I was at the Y for a year, then dropped it and did my own thing, jogging, etc. Ended up doing good at that for about six months. Now I need a gym again.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 9:10 AM PST up reply actions
For 13$ a month (compared to the almost 40 for the ones in my town), I'd do a little of both.
Having someone to keep track of how your lifts are progressing and spotting is a huge benefit.
Just don’t get one of the ones that wants to “circuit train” or anything. I know that both pdb and I have shared this link before, but it seems apt now – Everything you know about fitness is a lie
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I'll be working out with a buddy from work that's a former college QB and has been training for a long time.
Just having an kind of buddy helps though, but I will definitely check out that link.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah if I didn't have my coworker pushing me to work out
I’d get lazy about it really fast.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
My work has a "workout" room and I go down there on my lunch break
and do those “Insanity” videos.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I wish my work had something like that.
If they got that they’d get a shower and I could ride my bike to work year round.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Yeah its pretty nice
theres a couple of treadmills, a bike, an elliptical machine and a small weight machine (bench press, fly, shoulder press, legs) plus full locker rooms with showers. Its the only real employee benefit this place has.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
The 24 Hour is literally two minutes from work, so I'll be mixing in morning/lunch/evening workouts.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
Is it the one next to Ralphs?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
No, but that's the one closer to my home that I'll use on the weekends...
if there is ever any parking.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah good luck with that
almost every spot there is marked “not for 24 hour fitness”.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Yeah, I'm an elliptical guy typically as it is.
I just couldn’t even put my shoe on today.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
Focus on weight training then?
You should be able to do most upper body/torso workouts without too much discomfort. True cardio work can wait a week or two until it heals enough to get some leverage with it. Even weight lifting has some cardio benefits.
It's not really worth going to a doctor for, no
all they’ll do is say “yep, it’s broken” and give you a scrip for painkillers if you want. Just take some ibuprofen, try not to wear tight shoes for a week or so, and it’ll heal up fine on its own.
Did the same thing with my pinky finger a few weeks ago, and just reset it back to its normal shape and splinted it to the next two.
My last toe curls underneath though, so I don’t know about that one. However, I’ve broken other toes and just wrapped it for comfort and left it and it was fine.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
From personal experience? Make sure you exercise your pinky finger, and keep the tendons stretched out if you don't want a permanently bowed pinky.
Yeah, definitely. Funny thing, it's still shanked a little to the right (on the right hand), so the bending is sort of diagonal.
I’ve tried resetting it a few times and just can’t get it to line up to the second knuckle on the ring finger. Any tips from anyone?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
My wife did this, and they essentially just splinted it and sent her home.
The splint is probably worthwhile.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 9:02 AM PST up reply actions
They applied duct tape, used chewing gum, a tiny amount of Tabasco, and a liberal application of WD40.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
Jesus, is it just me or does nobody know the proper applications for WD40?
For fucks sake, it mixes with Crystal’s, not Tabasco.
(Also, this is my evangelical moment for the day – WD40 is not a lubricant!)
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
You can splint it on your own though.
Little bit of gauze, break a popsicle stick into pieces, brace both sides, tape up, done.
Speaking as someone who has broken a toe or two and never gone to a doctor about it.
So, did we free the internet from it's oppressors yesterday or what?
Or is there still a need to hack the planet?
by sanford_and_son on Jan 19, 2012 10:18 AM PST reply actions
Jamie Moyer was a freshman at St. Josephs University when Oliver Perez was born.
I just love Moyer facts. And they both sign minor league deals on the same day.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 10:25 AM PST reply actions
Things I learned today that mildly annoy me
James Stewart, the guy who wrote the Calculus textbook that everyone on the planet seems to use, lives in a house that costs $22million dollars:
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Would you rather own Apple or Greece?
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 11:13 AM PST reply actions
Greece is a better place to go in the summer.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
Greece is awesome. One of my top 5 countries I'd do a return visit to.
As long as it’s not Athens.
What's the problem with Athens? Crowds of tourists or something?
I’ve never been to Greece, so I’ve no idea.
It's a shithole.
Dirty urban sprawl. Athens is great only in that all the interesting historical stuff is clustered close and you can see everything in 2 days and then go somewhere nicer.
It's pretty dangerous as well.
I have family that live a few miles outside the city; there’s a lot of political and social unrest, and a hell of a lot of violence, in that part of the country.
Day 2 of taking a snow route bus that takes over an hour and trudging uphill to work.
Fuck being “essential staff.”
by sanford_and_son on Jan 19, 2012 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
Yeesh, sorry you westsiders have freezing rain.
Over here it just keeps snowing and snowing and snowing. Finally!
I'm honestly curious about this:
If money were not an issue, would it be possible to implement a snow removal system in Seattle as good as say, Minneapolis or Madison. Do massive hills really make this impossible to do or is it just due to budget restrictions?
Did the city learn anything from that massive storm in 2008 that pretty much cost Mayor Nichols his job? I really can’t tell yet.
It’s just crazy that a piddly ass couple inches of snow (that then freezes due to lack of plowing) can cripple a city this large.
Sorry, that turned into a rant. Being inconvenienced 2 or 3 days a year isn’t that big a deal I guess. Just seems like we would start to adapt better at some point.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 19, 2012 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
If money were not an issue, of course it would be possible
It’s not really about the massive hills, it’s about the allocation of scarce resources (granted, plowing Queen Anne Ave might not be realistic, but you know what I mean). Snow events like this happen once every 10-15 years; even routine snow events in Seattle are maybe once a year or once every two years. It doesn’t make sense for the city to spend what it would cost to implement a Midwest-city style snow removal program for something that wouldn’t see regular use.
I was shoveling the driveway for the past three days and it's been a sheet of ice since last night.
Snow can be managed somewhat, but freezing rain is another issue.
by JY on Jan 19, 2012 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
It's back to snowing on the hill
and I just went up on my roof to check it out and I have about 6-8 inches of snow now covered in enough ice/frozen snow that in some areas I was able to walk across it without breaking through to the snow underneath
It just started snowing again in Maple Valley, too.
Hours after I shoveled my drive way. Lesson learned.
My roommate was doing that last night when the power was out
The rest of us sat inside wonder what the hell he was doing
The snow/ice combination is knocking my neighbors arborvitae down
Which is great news as they’re 16 feet of ugly that shed crap all over when the wind blows. If they don’t straighten up come Spring I get to chop off everything that’s on my property! Hurray!
by Kermit. on Jan 19, 2012 3:45 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
We have the only shoveled walk on our street.
A few blocks over, however, there’s a fire department. And those fellas were out this afternoon shoveling their entire block.
Nice.
When I lived in Bozeman, one of the down the block neighbors got a 4 wheeler with a blade for Christmas. No one nearby had to shovel the walks the rest of the season.
I'm in Helena right now and we got like 14 inches last night.
Pretty cool how much effort goes in to snow removal on days like today.
It has shifted slightly here in the last two hours.
I walked up to my dad’s on the solid ice crust, and on the way back I kept breaking through to the snow underneath. I don’t think it was just the extra poundage from the pastrami sandwich…
I just went for a walk down Alki.
It’s weird walking on top of four inches of snow without it giving way, which was the case for the entirety of the 45 minute walk.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 19, 2012 3:21 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it's very weird.
It feels like walking on creme brulee. Earlier today my weight broke right through the ice, but now I can walk on it.
So I hear there's a state of emergency up there
Everyone okay?
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
It seems to me that 13 pounds of cat would be a rather handy little laptop table.
I’m not sure how one would deal with the whole shifting weight thing though.
I dunno Fausto is pretty slick
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
"Confirmed identification papers are the next market inefficiency."
Great comment.
...and now I'm here
All kidding aside about the weather.
Stay safe, you lot. I was always terrified by driving in the snow in Western Washington, where it seems everyone thinks they can drive in the snow, but display no abilities in line with those beliefs.
I have seen 7 accidents happen while driving around in the snow here the last couple days.
It’s always the same thing too. SUV driving too fast for conditions, thinking they’re immune, loses traction and blows out the safe driver they happen to be passing.
I've been out a few times with some jackass half a car length behind me.
Then I see them make a turn and spin out. Ugh.
by JY on Jan 19, 2012 3:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, that was the stuff that always made me cringe.
I lived near the Kitsap mall for two years, one year when it snowed leading up to Christmas if I had to go anywhere near it I would walk, the traffic was that bad.
And I kept an eye on everything in case I had to dodge cars on the footpath.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 19, 2012 3:31 PM PST up reply actions
I was walking across a street last night
This guy in a SUV saw me sped up and then honked at me as he passed. What a dick.
Watching the '64 Frankenheimer movie The Train for the first time in decades.
how did I not notice the annoying voice dubbing before?
LA Times - Seattle are "Snow Wimps"
The tone in this article is incredible – it reads like J.A. Adande wrote it.
It is a city of formidable hills and politically correct small cars …
The snowstorm had been forecast to be the worst to hit the Puget Sound region in 30 years, an ominous warning that scared easily scareable Seattleites. As a result — as is usually the case here when cold weather hits — the city collectively declared a snow day and gave up most thoughts of going to work.
My question is why the fuck does the LA Times think they can talk about aversion to driving in weather?
I’d love to see how LA handled snow.
by Mariner John on Jan 19, 2012 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
That comment was more of a
“hey, he’s driven around in both places. Maybe he could guess as to what it might be like to try to drive in L.A. with all this snow and ice” kinda thing, but whatever.
I thought it was like "let's ask katal"
I’ve actually never driven around in LA, but I suspect that people wouldn’t try to drive at all and those that did would be fairly successful
by seattlebruin on Jan 22, 2012 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
I would love to see it snow in LA just for the reactions
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
People around here can't even drive in the rain. It's terrible.
I’m not sure where he gets off calling out another city on weather driving.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 19, 2012 3:28 PM PST up reply actions
Which poses another issue in the argument...
the author says “[t]he city has always marched unarmed into its infrequent battles with snow”. Right. Infrequent. This kind of weather happens, but only every few years. Los Angeles probably has to deal with enough rain to make their drivers lose their shit more often than we encounter enough snow to make us lose our shit.
by JY on Jan 19, 2012 3:38 PM PST up reply actions
I was there for a torrential downpour in March and the freeway was one lane it was so flooded.
Shouldn’t it be somewhat better drained than that? Perhaps my one experience was once in a decade or something.
by Mariner John on Jan 19, 2012 3:39 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe their freeway system shouldn't be crippled by it then.
by Mariner John on Jan 19, 2012 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
Their freeways are crippled by themselves
they hardly need help from the rain
by seattlebruin on Jan 19, 2012 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
Southern California doesn't design for rain just like Washington doesn't for hard snow so it's so infrequent.
The parking lot at my work is terribly designed. Everything slants down to the NE coast corner where there is one drain with a sump pump. There was one day of hard rain, and the whole parking lot was flooded. They finally are starting to redesign it.
by seattle_since_81 on Jan 19, 2012 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
If it's anything like Tucson, the soil is shit- it can't absorb any water so when it rains it just sort of sits on the surface
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
So building drainage as good as Seattle's would be ridiculously expensive and not worth the cost given how infrequently it rains
Sort of like Seattle has some of the worst possible snow driving conditions- it would be more expensive to fit Seattle with an awesome snowplow setup than most other cities, and it snows infrequently enough that it’s not worth the cost
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
LA has terrible fucking drainage EVERYWHERE
They redid the drain system on my street a year ago because it always gets flooded when it rains and nothing changed. I remember when I was in school campus the walkways would just be lakes.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Well the problem is that you can keep driving when it rains like crazy and Los Angeles County does it really, really poorly
there comes a certain point at which you cannot drive when it’s snowing without serious cleanup efforts
by seattlebruin on Jan 19, 2012 3:40 PM PST up reply actions
Thing is, we've handled the last few storms really, really well.
The arterials were sanded and then de-iced rather quickly, there was one plow dedicated full-time to the West Seattle bridge this morning, the buses were largely functional. This was just a really difficult to predict storm that threw some major curveballs.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 19, 2012 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
The contrarian would now be saying "but they said there was going to be a foot of snow on Wednesday, couldn't you have handled today based off that?"
But you’re right. Last night’s freezing rain was bizarre. I went out on the porch and everything as far as I could see was just glazed over with ice.
by JY on Jan 19, 2012 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
Right, I don't think the snow was really the issue as much.
Also, the storm did something none of the models predicted; can’t prepare for something you haven’t been warned about.
by Aaron Campeau on Jan 19, 2012 3:45 PM PST up reply actions
This snowstorm is giving me flashbacks to a torrential downpour in SD a few years ago
in which Jeff and I posted screenshots of the SD traffic grid which was red all over the city with like 55 accidents in one day
by seattlebruin on Jan 19, 2012 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
Apparently WA state patrol responded to almost 800 incidents in a 24 hour period yesterday.
Same day last year, 74 incidents or something.
On the bright side at least a loved one of his is likely to die in an earthquake.
by Robert on Jan 19, 2012 3:37 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
This is really funny.
When I went to school in LA we actually had a “Rain Day” School closure. Only in SoCal.
Politically correct small cars?
Thanks, because I needed another reason to hate LA.
by Matthew on Jan 19, 2012 6:10 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
It's just such a weird and irrelevant thing to write.
There are plenty of SUVs in Seattle, and it’s not as if small cars are innately bad at dealing with snow. Sometimes quite the opposite.
by Chris Hafner on Jan 19, 2012 6:14 PM PST up reply actions
I've never met a small car that can't hold its own in snow
It’s a hell of a lot better in snow than the 2WD SUVs those Los Angelinos drive
Determined, Jonesing Commentor
Everyone in Seattle drives a nut free Prius
while drinking Starbucks and listening to Grunge in their flannel shirts. Fucking hipsters man!
(Of course the same could be said about everyone in Silver Lake/Eagle Rock/Echo Park but shhh)
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
"Remember the 90s?"
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 20, 2012 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
The Prius did not exist back then!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
The thing that I love about this "piece"
is that in this one sentence
“It is a city of formidable hills and politically correct small cars, many of which spent the morning sliding ineffectually around places such as Queen Anne Hill and Capitol Hill.”
the writer mentions the prominent hills here 3 times with, what seems zero regard to what they represent while operating a vehicle.
Baawww.
I like the video after that with the apparently retarded kitty that waltzes up the stairs while eating his tail.
Okay, I'll give.
I use a MacBook running OS X 10.4 (Tiger). My parents have a desktop computer running Windows 7. There is a printer attached to the desktop computer. My parents house has a wireless network, and their laptop (which runs Win7) can print to the machine attached to the desktop wirelessly.
I really want to know how to trick the printer attached to the desktop to print a document sent to it by my MacBook. I’ve done some Google searches, I tried this, and it didn’t work.
Does anybody have experience with this?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 19, 2012 6:38 PM PST reply actions
Just plug the printer in to your laptop.
by InSpokane on Jan 19, 2012 10:05 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Pssh.
I’ve actually been doing that when I want to print (or emailing a file to myself and using the parents computer to print).
I guess I just want to do something that is apparently RIDICULOUSLY HARD.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 20, 2012 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
I know nothing about Mac networking and printer sharing junk, but at least in Windows it's really not too bad accessing a printer on the network.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 21, 2012 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
Pretty easy actually.
But then it’s also pretty easy to watch windows fall apart and have to shut down when ever the mood strikes.
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The combination of freezing rain snow and a mixture of the two will begin to loosen its grip as warm air starts to move in and temperatures rise. That process is already underway. We’re starting to see stronger winds developing over on the coast. Those winds are coming from the southwest so they will be warmer which is what you need if you want to melt some of this stuff.
Overnight lows will be tricky in that some of the colder temperatures will be early in the evening and will gradually warm through the morning so the temperature where we start will be in the mid-thirties. There will be some differences especially in the north sound and Whatcom County. Colder air will linger and folks who live there will be dealing with snow or freezing rain through probably midday Friday.
The main trend however is for everyone to warm up and highs on Friday will generally be in the mid to upper forties. By that time of course everything coming from the sky will be plain old northwest rain. As a result there is a FLOOD WATCH up for rivers in western Washington.
Any thoughts about when the roads may be passable?
I have to make the call if we have a delayed opening at 9 or just cancel the day. So much pressure!
His character is what Our Idiot Brother should have been.
by yuniform on Jan 20, 2012 11:33 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
When I read this, I thought, "Hasn't he been on before?"
Then I realized all the scenes I thought I remembered being in Parks and Rec were actually from I Love You Man. >_>
He's one degree from Rashida Jones a lot of ways.
by yuniform on Jan 20, 2012 4:01 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Oh wow, I guess it snowed.
Good lord, what a week. Something like 200,000 customers without power in Western WA… Me included. Probably no power until Saturday, if not much longer. Looked like half an inch of ice over EVERYTHING.
I’m thinking about trying to go to work tomorrow, but it’s still not looking good. Hope everyone is staying warm and safe tonight.
My dad has been without power since yesterday morning in Edgewood. Getting a bit worried at this point.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 20, 2012 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks!
My hot water bottle and a couple of dogs have been keeping me warm. I’m glad your power is back on!
This used to be a tree in my backyard.
Hooray for ice storms.

Anyone else dealing with crazy icestorm effects?
My mom posted pics yesterday
of my dad going out and pruning the trees around the house to prevent them from falling on their car etc.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Good idea.
I think, even had I had the foresight to prune this tree, I would never have thought to prune…y’know, every single branch on the damn thing.
I was listening to KISW on the way to work yesterday.
They have this 10 question trivia segment where one caller gets to try to “beat the producer” by correctly answering more questions than Steve-the-producer.
So this guy gets on the air and gets something like 3 questions right. The producer aced it and the caller really sounded depressed about getting waxed so bad. BJ (the host) mentioned it and the guy stated that his car had been crushed by his carport the night before.
BJ, being a swell fellow, decided to give him the prize despite getting his ass kicked. The prize was tickets to a Nickelback concert. Talk about being kicked when you’re down…
I had never heard a Nickelback song before, that I was aware of.
Then I found out recently that the theme song to WWE Monday Night Raw is done by Nickelback. I was justifiably appalled at myself for having found it catchy all this time.
Every time I hear a Nickleback song...
I think “man, Chad Kroeger’s rhyming dictionary has to be falling apart by now”
by JY on Jan 21, 2012 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
I have a co worker who thinks Nickelback is a swell band
then again his taste in EVERYTHING is terrible.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Did you see the last paragraph on Cliff Mass' blog?
Now I hate to bring this up…. but the forecast models for the next week indicate some intense weather in store for us. Heavy rains, strong windstorms, and the arrival of frigid arctic air. Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel may have to come back for another visit.
I fucking hate you Mariners
by kentroyals5 on Jan 20, 2012 1:41 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
from Adam Savage:
OMG, watch this before it gets brought down. Star Wars by hundreds of unconnected peeps in 15 second bits. Brilliant.
I'll admit that I watched at least 30 minutes of this last week
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
The weather made it onto Australia's news.
It was showing shots of snow plows and a few other things, then the space needle.
…Which is apparently in the mid west.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 12:05 AM PST reply actions
:(
Uluru! You should see it change colour as the sun rises or sets. One of the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen.
…Noooooooooooooooooo my fotopic page with my Uluru photos is gone. :(
Well, here’s the Google images search page for “uluru sunset”. Not the same but I guess it will have to do.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
What, no harbour bridge?
I was lucky when I lived in Sydney and worked in the city – one of the city train stations I used to have to go through has a pretty decent view of both the bridge and the opera house as long as you’re sitting on the right side/in the right car.
No matter what else was going on, that was always a nice start to the day.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
I'd think that someone would have made a time lapse video of it by now.
The pics are pretty awesome though.
There's probably one out there.
I’m bummed by the possible loss of the pics I had up. I think I may have some of them on my desktop if I can dig it out of a box but it’s still meh.
And that way I could have linked to some taken from the same place with the same camera every few minutes.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
That would be really cool to see.
I’m sure it’s nothing like actually being there to witness but, for those of us who will probably never get the opportunity to see first hand, it might be the best we can get.
Here.
This one isn’t bad. Also gives you a bit of a view leading up to it. It really is in the middle of nowhere.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
Thanks.
That was really cool. The landscape looked a bit like the area around the town I lived in when I was in Utah.
The park usage fee sign kind of threw me a bit too. Is there a yearly pass you can get for all parks that doesn’t beat up the pocketbook so much?
Yes.
Well, sorta. There’s one for each state, then costs and coverage vary.
There’s also the point that Uluru is a recognised aboriginal site. They could restrict access to it if they chose to do so.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 21, 2012 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
Uh oh.
all the many many sirens heading to 3700 Aurora Av N have switched from medic response to “water rescue” on the 911 page.
Sitting in a Starbucks, still don't have power. I can see my breath in my bedroom.
Hope everyone else got their power back quickly. The upside of all that snow was when a fist size hunk of snow fell on my truck’s windshield, there was a thick layer of frozen snow to bounce it off!
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Thankfully, our power was only out for 13 hours.
It was also helpful that the outside temp had come up enough that our meager fire put out enough heat to keep the birds from getting too cold.
A reminder that this still hasn't officially happened yet:
GregJohnsMLB
Jesus Montero in Seattle today undergoing physical, but no formal announcement of trade expected til Monday. #Mariners #Yankees
9 minutes ago
Reporter to Montero - "How do your knees feel?"
Montero – “Better”
by Kermit. on Jan 21, 2012 5:30 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
So apparently we've signed Kevin Millwood(hat tip to Brett Miller for pointing me to this article)
According to a weekend Facebook posting by his sister Erika, Millwood has agreed to a contract with the Seattle Mariners. That agreement comes a month after Mlbtraderumors.com reported the Mariners had an interest in Millwood and a week after The Denver Post reported Millwood has turned down a one-year, $1 million contract from the Colorado Rockies with incentives that could make him $2 million.
@Goose1701
So what demon possessed the NFL so deeply that they had Steven Tyler sing the anthem before the Baltimore vs New England game?
Damn that was awful.
I can't stand Tyler so I changed the channel as soon as they announced his name.
After hearing about how shitty he did I kind of wished I had watched it now.
I must have watched so many bad anthem performances
that this one didn’t even phase me
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Any interesting beer discoveries in the new year?
I bought a bomber of Perseverance from Alaskan Brewing on a lark a while back and finally cracked it open. It’s a stout, but not at all like most of the stouts I’ve had in my life: no coffee, very limited chocolate, sort of tastes like smoke and burnt cream. It’s only out as a 25th anniversary thing though and that makes me mighty sad indeed.
Hippy Highway Oatmeal Stout, Lone Peak Brewery.
I really like Oatmeal stouts, and this is a good one.
I’m hearing really good things about Bobo’s robust porter by Big Sky as well. I’ve been sulking all winter because they didn’t do Cowboy Coffee Porter, but evidently this is as good or better. Need to track some down when I get back to Missoula.
Nothing yet this year but,
late last year I got hold of some Theakston Old peculier and loved it. It’s a bitter with great depth and tons of character.
While we're on the subject of beer, (this might be more for the foodies out there)
I paired planked salmon steaks with a sour today and ohmyfuckinggod was it perfect.
I planked the salmon with garlic and sweet basil and served it with steamed asparagus and red potatoes. The sour was The Dissident but I imagine just about any good ones will suit just as well.
Two last week, one good one bad.
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout is avoidable. Lagunitas hops the crap out of everything they make, which is fine for a lot of beers but clashes with the earthy/smokey/malty/coffee notes I wanted from a coffee stout. Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye IPA by contrast is an excellent use of hops (and rye), and worth picking up a six pack.
I stayed up despite having a 12 hour shift to start at 6am >:(
Well, I went to bed after we turned it over on on 4th down so I missed Cundiff shitting the bed. Reading that on my phone was bad enough.
Read any good books lately?
And what kind of books do you usually like? Fiction or Non? Genre?
I created a Lookout Landing group over at Goodreads, because I like to see what other people are reading, too. Join if you’re on, and consider joining Goodreads if you like books!
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
I've been reading Diamond Age
albeit mostly in 5 page intervals while on the toilet.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I've been meaning to start reading some Neal Stephenson.
Cryptonomicon is on my to-read list.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Cryptonomicon combines 3 of my favorite things
WWII history, cryptography, and the Marines. Also lots of stuff on the “invention” of computers.
Anathem is probably the hardest Stephenson read I’ve done, but I think the payoff makes it my favorite. First 200 pages are kind of tough, but Stephenson is known for his difficult stretches.
Reading through the remainder of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books right now. I made it this long only having read the first one and not knowing why. Reading Infinite Jest slowly on the side.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
I am of the opinion it is his second best book.
Right after Zodiac. They’re part of his, pre-“I’m too famous to need an editor” period.
I adored Snow Crash.
And Zodiac is the nuts.
The Deliverator scene is pretty much the best bit in all of fiction.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Minus
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
I'm currently reading The Scar by China Mieville and it might be my new favourite book.
You’ll need to read Perdido Street Station first though.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 23, 2012 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
I have The City and The City on my list to read.
I recently read news that Mieville is going to be writing a comic for DC, coming out sometime in the next few months.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
That book was a weird one for me
I plodded through the first half, struggling to get into it, then read the last 200 pages in one sitting.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 23, 2012 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
Good to know I shouldn't give up on it then.
Maybe I should slide Perdido into the list above it.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
I don't think it really matters which you read first
TC&TC isn’t at all like the rest of his work so it should put you off if you don’t like it. Embassytown is his latest and while I haven’t read it yet it seems like it would be a good entry point.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 23, 2012 12:32 PM PST up reply actions
Got ya.
I say “give up on it” if I don’t like the first half or so, but I don’t think I’ve ever done that. Just good to know it picks up I guess, for those desperate times of struggle.
I’ll probably just pick up a few Mievilles at once and see which one has a prettier cover and read that one first.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
This site needs .5s on its rating system.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 23, 2012 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
I just started reading a book called Skippy Dies
it’s pretty awesome so far. SPOILER ALERT: Skippy dies. On page two. I also just re-read Brendan Behan’s “Borstal Boys”, which is my all time favorite piece of Irish writing.
Twilight tops both the Best and Worst books ever lists.
God
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
My most recently finished book is the unabridged audiobook of 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami.
It was recommended by Leo on the This Week in Tech podcast, and I thoroughly enjoyed all ~48 hours of it. I’m listening to another Murakami audiobook now, Kafka on the Shore, and it’s quite enjoyable so far.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
I can't speak to the audiobooks
But Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is my favourite novel of his.
by Eyeball Kid on Jan 23, 2012 12:17 PM PST up reply actions
Added to my to-read list. Thanks!
I’m doing mostly audiobooks lately, as most of my reading is done during my commute, and reading on a kindle while walking or while in a crowded train or while hanging onto the bus hand-holds is more difficult than listening.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Still trudging along with Game of Thrones.
Book five now, at least. I’ll make it to the end one day. Hopefully not before George R.R. Martin finishes it.
You've got plenty of time
he’s probably not even gonna start book 6 until next year.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
By now I'm fairly confident he will die before he finishes it.
There’s always fanfic!
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 8:44 PM PST up reply actions
He's already got like 150 pages done
he’s spoiled like three chapters already. I’m really hopeful for a late 2013 release, which makes sense. Books 1, 2 and 3 all came out within two years of each other, it’s just when the plot got messed up in Feast for Crows and Dance With Dragons that he got bogged down, plus he knows what the ending is supposed to be now
by seattlebruin on Jan 23, 2012 11:27 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, I think he figured out all his story problems that he created with 4-5.
The way he says it books 4-5 weren’t even supposed to exist, there was just going to be a 5 year gap in story and then it would pick up again where book 6 starts. The gap was meant to give the kids times to grow up in time for the things they need to do for the end of the story. Or something, and irrelevant since it didn’t work out that way. It does help explain the issues with books 4-5 though.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 24, 2012 5:50 AM PST up reply actions
He also hasn't written anything in over 6 months
and has announced no plans to start writing soon. And the plot has spiraled out of control.
If GURM finishes it in less than 4 years I will be surprised.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Having no power reacquainted me with one of my favorites.
The Amber books by Roger Zelazny. I’d forgotten how complicated things get in such a short period of time, and how nobody trusts anybody. Shits all over Game of Thrones from a great height.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Wow! I had totally forgotten those.
That IS the series where the royals walked “the pattern” to transfer between realities, isn’t it?
Yup, and they live forever and are really hard to kill
They are all born with the ability to shape reality, walking the Pattern gives them the ability to control it so they don’t accidently stumble into a world at the bottom of the ocean or with chlorine for air.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
I hope all our Oregon Football fans didn't blow up any hospitals last night!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Nope, but I really do want to throw "sources" out of my office's third-story window this morning.
I was putting the newspaper to bed last night at like 11:30. By the time I biked home, grabbed something to eat and cracked a beer, it broke that Chip Kelly was staying at Oregon after all. So my newspaper’s inaccurate today and I’m unhappy, because this entire stupid wild goose chase went on without a single goddamned named source, or even a source referenced by position (i.e., “Tampa Bay executive” or “Oregon athletic department employee”).
by thehemogoblin on Jan 23, 2012 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
I'm just happy that Pete Carroll is coaching the Bruins now
by seattlebruin on Jan 23, 2012 11:24 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
While still coaching the Seahawks?
I knew he never slept, but that is impressive!
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
What the hell
The body text of my posts is disappearing and all my posts are being doubled.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Yeah it seems fine after closing the tab and reloading
Must’ve just been my browser.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
Hostess and Kodak file for bankruptcy?
Bad week for nostalgia.
And yeah.. the hot dog looks… well, I’m always surprised how well salty and sweet go together.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 23, 2012 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
Scary? Someone has never seen UHF, I take it?
by Patrick Stites on Jan 23, 2012 3:15 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
You should watch it again, it's on Netflix, if you happen to have that.
Side note: We made these once on a Boy Scout camp out, for breakfast. Best breakfast ever.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 23, 2012 5:27 PM PST up reply actions
fyi
The Hot Stove League Show will be broadcast Monday (Jan. 23) from 7-9 p.m. on 710 ESPN Seattle and can also be heard at mariners.com. Scheduled guests to include Jack Zduriencik, Carl Willis, Jim Caple and more.
Comment on randon CNN article
weucaowe, 12 minutes ago
The only thing nastier and more foul-tasting than coffee is alcohol.
These people are out there and they are stealing your oxygen.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 23, 2012 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Or an Irish Coffee
Either way, dump one into the other.
by Craptastic-J on Jan 24, 2012 5:51 AM PST up reply actions
Starbucks selling beer and wine?
Apparently, they have already tested this in Seattle before. Anyone run across one of those cafes that sold beer?
Also, Burger King and Sonic to test alcohol sales?
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Olive Way and Summit St is one of the Starbucks in question.
They only offer beers by the bottle, nothing on tap. And it’s a pretty lame selection.
The licensing to install taps is apparently cost-prohibitive. Not that Starbucks couldn’t afford it, but everything implied by it and to keep it open to the ages under 21 – just a hassle to do it store-by-store.
That's very interesting. You'd think if it was profitable, McDonalds would do it, right?
Since there is a McDonald’s within 5 minutes of seemingly every home, you could have hot and ready Big Macs to the door in 20 minutes. And it’s not like McD’s has never considered delivery, as I’m sure they get requests all the time. That last quote from Domino’s is pretty funny and probably pretty true. I mean, at least with pizza people are usually spending $20+ to begin with. The appeal of McDonalds or Burger King is getting a meal for under $7.
I don’t know why I spit-balled on that issue for so long.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 23, 2012 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of this
I hate to admit that I went to BK this weekend, but I did, and I was amazed at how expensive its become. I feel like the price of fast food has been on the rise.
To improve, they should try to become the musical southern cal of the west. - bRuins Nation poster on the Stanford band.
I don't think it's really increased all that much, at least relative to other things.
And they still have dollar menu items at most places, and can get some alright stuff for a few bucks.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 23, 2012 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed, you still CAN be cheap, but I think they're being sneakier about the ways they profit.
A lot of places do still have value menus, and you can be cheap if you’re selective. But the price of a “meal” has gone up. Getting a #1 or a #7 or whatever can easily run me 8 bucks or more, even at cheap places like BK or McD’s.
The delivery time is what might be an issue (at least it would with me).
With a pizza, you expect it to take at least a half an hour. It takes a while for a pizza to cook anyway, so you wouldn’t expect it to arrive within 15 minutes. With a burger and fries, you usually get your order within a couple of minutes of it being placed. If you live 10 minutes from a BK and it takes 30 minutes to get your food, what’s the hold up?
Ugh, gross cold fries and a soggy hamburger bun. Pass.
Unless they make BK food trucks that make your order while they drive to your house. Then I’m sold.
Supposedly BK has developed some proprietary food warming containers, probably in the same vein as the ones pizza companies use.
by Patrick Stites on Jan 24, 2012 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
Old news of some interest...
The Clinton Lumberkings have a new broadcaster, who was formerly of the Daytona Cubs. They lost their old broadcaster when he took off to do play-by-play for the Braves’ triple-A affiliate.
I hope work takes me to Des Moines for several weeks again this year.
Two years ago I was up there but too late to drive over to catch any games and missed out on Franklin. Last year I wasn’t able to make any trips and missed out on Walker, so I’m set on getting up there one way or another this season.
I don't think you'll have any guys of that calibre coming through.
There’s a chance you could get Guillermo Pimentel, but on the whole his plate discipline is still pretty bad and I’m not expecting a lot at the moment. He just has more power potential than most and some have him high on prospect lists as a result. Marcus Littlewood will probably make a return tour. Some people like him. I am not really one of those people. Jordan Shipers will probably get a spot in the rotation. He’s all right. Ambioris Hidalgo and Jose Valdivia might also get rotation spots. They’re both all right. Jamal Strong Austin could also be there and he’s fast. Alfredo Morales could get the bump and he has tools. Felipe Burin could also end up there and he’s kind of fun though his abilities are limited. I suppose it would be a different matter if they kept back Brad Miller, or Jabari Blash, or Carter Capps, or if they opted to agressively promote Tyler Marlette, or give Danny Hultzen an easy start to his career, but right now the Lumberkings don’t seem like they’ll be particularly interesting, at least in the first half of 2012.
by JY on Jan 23, 2012 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
Littlewood's switching to catcher, right? That might be interesting to watch.
I’d still like to get up there to check them out, even if the roster doesn’t have any highly rated names on it. Only getting 3 games a year when the Mariners visit sucks. Plus they visit mid-week in July this year and even though it’s not August, Ichiro is still right on when it comes to the heat. If I make the trip I’ll probably post a fanshot/post prior to it to solicite any advice on what to be on the lookout for.
It may be more interesting next year.
Besides, there’s a chance that they draft some interesting types and they’re in there by July or so.
by JY on Jan 23, 2012 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
Jack was saying they talked to everyone at the end of the year, set them up with Rocket, challenged them, etc. and then arranged to have 9 of them come into town, check them out, have dinner with Wedge
Guti putting weight/muscle back on, Smoak apparently has lost some weight, but got stronger, Olivo was asked to lose upper body size and did, Figgins is supposedly in great shape having really worked like crazy, Wells was also mentioned …
Just listened to Z on Hot Stone Report.
Wells, Olivo, Smoak, Gutz, Figgins, Seager, Ackley, and I forget others.
How come you can do all this other great shit, but you can't lie the fuck down and sleep?
Despite the massive amount of rational thought against it, I have a weird hope for a non-terrible Chone.
My insanity has reached a new high.
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 8:49 PM PST up reply actions
I think people hoped that after 2010, and then worked it out of their system.
by JY on Jan 23, 2012 9:01 PM PST up reply actions
BUT HE WAS SO NOT-BAD BEFORE
I think this means I have finally fully deleted 2011 from my memory.
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 9:11 PM PST up reply actions
Well if we keep going with the every other year theme....
Oh shit, this could end badly.
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 9:18 PM PST up reply actions
Or is it bad in this case?
I fuck that one up constantly.
by the other side on Jan 23, 2012 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
It would be super to get some value out of him
and let the 3B depth marinate for another year in the minors
I kinda like the idea of giving Seager a shot
he seems like a guy who doesn’t have a ton of upside (maybe 3 WAR peak), but is pretty close to being a league average guy at third.
I’d like it if Figgins rehabilitated his value just enough to get dealt and not leave us paying the entire contract
by seattlebruin on Jan 23, 2012 11:28 PM PST up reply actions
I would settle for that.
But I confess I really do hope he has a bounce back and wins back some fanbase support.
/irrational, deluded hope.
by Aussie Mariner on Jan 24, 2012 4:27 AM PST up reply actions
I'm there with you.
I was a happy clam when we signed him. I never thought the cliff he fell off of could be so high.
I just think that he's too far gone to win back fan support
and that it would be better for all parties involved that if he were to have a resurgence, that he do so somewhere else
by seattlebruin on Jan 24, 2012 9:15 AM PST up reply actions
oops!
While watching the match between Caroline Wozniacki and Kim Clisters, a question popped into my head. If Wozniacki never wins a major, will she be considered this generation’s Anna Kournikova?
Kournikova won literally one tournament. Wozniacki is ranked #1 in the world.
This is more of a case of “best player ever to not win a major” than anything else.
by thehemogoblin on Jan 23, 2012 9:56 PM PST up reply actions
I don't think she ever won a WTA singles tournament.
She and Hingis kicked ass at doubles though.
They are changing up the Mariners trivia at FanFest this year
“Mariner’s Melee”— more of a Family Feud set-up, with two groups of five going up against each other with their trivia knowledge
I'm curious to see how that plays out.
I’m a veteran (and multiple-time champion) of Last Fan Standing.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 23, 2012 8:58 PM PST up reply actions
Boo! Booooo!
One of the only reasons I go to FanFest is to win my free tickets for the year. Boo!
… Anyone else making it to FanFest this year?
Can't you still win shit with this method?
Do you have to have 5 people you know to do it?
by Mariner John on Jan 24, 2012 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
I suppose so, but I'll have to trust others to help me win.
That’s why I’m hoping I’ll see some LLers there. You don’t know what you’re get by joining a random group.
At BA, they finally posted a new team-specific notebook for the M's.
The title is “Peguero Still In Mariners’ Plans”
FFFFFFUUUUUUUU-
Goddamnit I'm a goat!!!!
How do I change screen names?
by d0nkey on Jan 24, 2012 10:57 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm a pig.
Pigs came in effing LAST in Buddha’s race. I thought I was rather spritely, but I guess not.
Thank goodness.
I’m really tired of the media hard on for him to join Texas (please don’t choose Texas).
Rosenthal says Prince doesn't want to come to Seattle (think we already knew that, but whatever).
Left handed hitters do realize that Safeco actually helps them out, right? I mean really.
by Coach Owens on Jan 24, 2012 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
Baseball players aren't the brightest bunch. Fuck him.
At this point I just want him out of division.
by the other side on Jan 24, 2012 11:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Safeco doesn't really help lefties out, it just hurts them less than it hurts righties.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Heyman tweets Nationals, 8 years.
Yay Not Rangers!
And Larry points out that massively retweeted tweet is from a fake Heyman account.
We still don’t know!
It's like last year when everyone was fooled by a fake Adam Schefter account
tweeting that the Seahawks had signed Favre!
by Coach Owens on Jan 24, 2012 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
Who the hell owns that account?
Logan Morrison is my #1 suspect.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 24, 2012 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Fooled Geoff Baker
Surprisedface.jpg
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Jan 24, 2012 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
If you follow Jon Heyman, as I would suspect all of the sports reporters in this town do, how do you end up retweeting a fake account?
Did they end up following both and forgetting that one of them was a fake account?
by seattle_since_81 on Jan 24, 2012 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
Somebody typed in his name in the search box wrong,
selected the “John Heyman” account saw the tweet and retweeted it? I dunno, doesn’t make a lot of sense.
by Coach Owens on Jan 24, 2012 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
But wait!!!!
Larry Stone: This is the real Tim Brown. RT @TBrownYahoo: Source: Prince is very close to 9-year contract with the Detroit Tigers, according to sources.
His father's team. So fucking obvious, yet I never even entertained the thought until now.
Huh.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 24, 2012 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
Prince Fielder and his father do not get along and have not spoken in years
I would doubt that played a part in Prince’s decision, and will probably just serve as an annoyance.
Ahhh, that's right, I remember reading about that.
Who knows, though. He probably has good feelings towards the team in general from when he was a kid, but I’m in no position to speculate.
by sanford_and_son on Jan 24, 2012 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
That dick, releasing false info and then changing his mind like it never happened.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Heyman just confirmed it.
9 years over 200 mil
by the other side on Jan 24, 2012 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
.
JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman
fielder gets 9 yrs, $200_plus mil. @TBrownYahoo said close
by the other side on Jan 24, 2012 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
The Fielder/Cabrera tandem, 2012-2015.
Holy shit. Sorry, AL Central pitchers.
Mariners fan in SF :: @Eric_Dykstra
Jesus Christ I wouldn't want to even touch that.
by the other side on Jan 24, 2012 12:04 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
M's would've had to be in the $225m/10yr. range to beat that.
So glad that they didn’t.
by seattle_since_81 on Jan 24, 2012 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
I sort of wanted him for irrational reasons, but his just not going to a rival makes feel nothing but good about the way this turned out.
I do hope we add one more shiny thing before ST.
Wow. What a shitty deal for Detroit.
How could they possibly imagine he’ll be worth that?
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 24, 2012 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
If you lose Victor Martinez, a 3 win player last year, and replace him with Prince Fielder, a 5.5 win player last year...
I mean, they won the division by 15 games. I’m not sure he gets him over the hump from where they already were, but yeah, it can’t hurt their chances in the short-term.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 24, 2012 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
And now we get to read all of the Mariners "fans" on Facebook
about how the Mariners obviously don’t want to win because they didn’t sign Fielder! Hooray!
by Coach Owens on Jan 24, 2012 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
Can't be worse than Yahoo
@HittheCutoff “Jeeeez Fielder worth 200 million. REALLY . He dont e ven steal bases” — latest comment on Yahoo! Prince article.
by Mariner John on Jan 24, 2012 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
So who should get more time at first, Fielder or Cabrera?
by Eyebrows on Jan 24, 2012 12:08 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Is Cabrera decent?
All I’ve heard from Milwaukee fans is that it’s hard to watch Prince out there.
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by Kenneth Arthur on Jan 24, 2012 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
I got over my laziness and went to fangraphs:
Cabrera: -2.7 UZR/150 since 2008 (5126.1 innings)
Fielder: -6.4 UZR/150 since 2005 (8311.2 innings)
by Eyebrows on Jan 24, 2012 12:15 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Heyman is saying that Fielder will be the first baseman.
@JonHeymanCBS
prince will be the first baseman, for anyone asking. cabrera will have to change role. #tigers
by seattle_since_81 on Jan 24, 2012 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
Stats seem to indicate that that's the wrong move.
But it doesn’t seem to be that big of a difference.
by Eyebrows on Jan 24, 2012 12:16 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
And I wouldn't be surprised if it's a split.
Probably not 50/50, but you want to keep both of them up to speed in the field.
by Eyebrows on Jan 24, 2012 12:19 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
It seems like they could put Raburn there if they really want to play Young
But then Raburn is apparently awful at 3rd too so who knows.
by Mariner John on Jan 24, 2012 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
Victor Martinez must be much more hurt than they thought.
“Of course we’d consider Prince Fielder,” Detroit Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowksi said Thursday afternoon at a stop on the team’s Winter Caravan. “But realistically, it’s probably not a good fit,” he said.

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